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I appreciate your help, and it does sound interseting. However, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I'd prefer to leverage my (much more marketable) C skills when writing programs for the RCX. That's why I'm using NQC right now - I already know (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) As a professional programmer, I just don't have the time, interest, or inclination to fiddle with building the GNU tools. I have tried to do this by following other folks best efforts and got something that was 95% functional. and in the end, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Geez, I hate to plug my own work, but why not try the new pbFORTH. You can have arrays, as many variables as you want, simple multitasking, etc... No need for a compiler, just a terminal emulator will work. You DO have to try and learn FORTH, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The existing HOWTO is nice, and I know he worked hard on it BUT.... What I think we need is a howto with a REALLY narrow scope... which, ironically, would cover more people than any other group. You know what's probably out there right now? A ton of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Phil, Matt, other Windows/LegOS users- If anyone would like to write them up, I'd love to add Windows instructions to my LegOS HOWTO. Only problem is that I cannot test them myself, so I need others to provide them and make them usable. Currently, I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm thinking - we need just such a list! I mean - the only info out there for Win98 users is confusing at best. What is needed is a VERY SIMPLE explanation - basically, several steps. Download THIS zip file Unzip it to THIS directory name Put the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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You are sooo smart. I am not sure I completely understand everything you have said in the last two posts, but if I just blindly type "make --unix" IT WORKS!!!. I will now go back and see if I can follow everything you have suggested and see if I can (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) So is the idea that you might have a "shell" app that lets you control a button or two and that takes over the lcd at times (say), and lets you start, suspend, and stop other apps that control different, presumably disjoint sets of motors and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) They could. In fact, there may be cases where that is exactly what you want to do. However, that requires you to write your code to examine the semaphore at every point where you would want to consider processing the event. It is more work. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes, that is it. A classic example is a full screen app such as vi. When being stopped, vi sets the terminal mode to something generic and saves any screen info that it needs. When resumed, it sets the terminal mode back to what it wants and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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