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(...) The delay was added a long time ago after a bit of discussion on this newsgroup/list. A search through old newsgroup posts will turn up a brief series of three posts with subject "Rom sensor read routine" from Apr/May 1999. The explanation (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Patches on SourceForge? A good/bad way to get changes into brickOS?
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I've just posted (URL) note that there are 4 other patches lingering from as far back as September. Will my patch be looked at because it has been posted there? For info, here is the patch description The last version of binutils that brickOS works (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Interesting BrickOS Timing Results
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This was a terrific analysis. It's not surprizing that current implementation hogs so much CPU time. If all four A/D channels are scanned every 150 us then the A/D interrupt is occuring every 37.5 us since each A/D channel generates its own (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Interesting BrickOS Timing Results
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(...) This would be my favourites. If one builds a fast moving robot, main concern will be how fast the robot reacts to light sensor changes or how small the structures could be that the light sensor will "see". If one builds a thinking robot, for (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Interesting BrickOS Timing Results
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Mark, ANOTHER great find! You are pushing BrickOS to new heights! Ok, so what can we do about this? 1) Provide a constant to set the update frequency at compile time. 2) Provide a variable to set the update frequency at run time. 3) Optimize the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Interesting BrickOS Timing Results
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Oops, found a little bug. ;-) Forgot to turn off the rotation sensors. Caused a wrong reading if you let the program run through the readings more than once. The rotation sensor section should read like this: // with two rotation sensors enabled (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Interesting BrickOS Timing Results
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Hi All, The recent posts about interfacing an i2c device to an RCX sensor port (in .robotics) got me interested in looking at the kernel code that handles the sensors. So, I did and found myself looking at the ds_handler function. This function is (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | DJGPP Cross Compiler Progress
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I have successfully built an h8300 cross compiler for DJGPP using the newest version of gcc 3.2. I was not successful using gcc 2.95.2, the current used gcc compiler with brickOS, and at the advice of others tried gcc 3.2. Since it is the goal of (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make seems not to work / djgpp
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(...) You should edit your Makefile. Regards, Michael (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make seems not to work / djgpp
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(...) I do not have a djgpp directory. Which legos version do you have? First time the make command works, only not, when want start a new project. Reinhard (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make seems not to work
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(...) Did you add the djgpp directory to your path? I don't remember everything I had to do, but here's a piece from MY autoexec.bat set path=c:\djgpp\bin;c:...til;%path% set djgpp=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env set shell=c:/djgpp/bin/sh.exe Steve (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | make seems not to work
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Hi! I try to compile a new programm (lightseeker.c) with make, but i only get this message (under WinLegos): make.exe: *** No rule to make target `lightseeker.lx', needed by `all'. Stop What is wrong? Reinhard (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | brickRC - A gnome based, LNP using remote control/monitor app for the RCX
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Hi, thanks to this group I got LNP working quite nicely. To get my fingers warm I wrote a little app to remote control the RCX with Linux. It also allows to monitor the input ports. It's quite usefull when you build a model and want to check the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | brickOS with BricxCC
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So far I have heard from two people who have successfully used brickOS with BricxCC. I'm interested in whether anyone else has tried using BricxCC to edit/compile/download programs to brickOS. Currently BricxCC requires that the cygwin bin directory (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | dll questions
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I'm working on a new release of BricxCC at the moment and I want to better understand the dll utility - specifically the RCX host address and RCX source port options. I think I understand the RCX host address part. Correct me if I'm wrong. Supposing (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: makedepend variable in Makefiles
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Investigating into this further, apparently from the comments in CVS, a change was made to the makefile in legOS\boot (Rev 1.2) and legOS\demo (Rev 1.2) some three years ago. The comment stated "replaced makedepend by MAKEDEPEND". But no similar (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: workaround.patch for h8300-hms-ld crash
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(...) No problem. Stupid lugnet server stripped out the attachments. Here is the patch, both attached and inline. BrickOS maintainers: How about applying (some ideas from) this patch? Max Index: Makefile.user ===...=== RCS file: (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP problem
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(...) This works in deed! Thank you so much Michael! No way I would have found this myself. BB (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP problem
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(...) Ok. This is indeed the result if you run the original LNP package. There are several problems with your sources, too. So try the following to get things done: First, go to the lnpd subdir and edit rcxtty.c. In function tty_init you find a line (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP problem
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(...) Thanks. Too bad it doesn't work, but at least now I know it's not me :) Please let me know if I can be of any help. BB (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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