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Sorry it took so long to reply, Mark... I somehow seem to have deleted your mail and only noticed it on the newsgroup by accident. Here are my thoughts. (...) Uhuh. This is (apparently) not a unique experience. (...) I have not had that experience, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm most of the way to getting it working myself, but I was curious to see if anyone has implemented a random number generator in their bot. Anyone? Anyone? -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The precompiled tm-and-ir, kinda works for me. It is pretty good at receiving data, but the transmitted message often has garbage. When I compile it myself using the latest legOS snapshot, it always transmits garbage, others seem to have seen the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, neither the latest release of egcs nor the latest binutils 2.9.1 seems to do it. Apparently, though, the beta binutils (2.9.4, use at your own risk, blah, blah, blah) works. The gcc compilation is now crashing in a different location. Using my (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks for the help, Matt. solaris2.7 was correctly selected as the host by conf.guess, so that is not the problem. I would have no authority to apply any patches, even if I could find them, so I'm building egcs-1.1.2 instead. We'll see how that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) There were some changes in Solaris 2.7 that break the compilation of some stuff, if I remember correctly. Have you checked with the gcc maintainers to see if they have a patch for this? Another thing to try would be specifying the host type (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I posted here quite some time about this, and got a single personal response which has now been lost into the bowels of my pine folder "system." (hah!) Has anyone successfully set up a cross compiler on solaris 2.7? While building the binutils, I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've sent a mail to Alex Howanski at alex.wankwood regarding his Barcode sourcecode for legOS, but still do not see any reply. His page was updated on June 19th, so it's still current. Anyone out there communicate with alex and / or have his or (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I must have been sidetracked and posted this by mistake to ..build. Sorry, -Phil (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm waiting... :) If anyone can help out, Just let me know locations where I can grab files, or let me know that you have something so that I can give you a temporary FTP account to upload to my machine. Preferably, I'd like someone with a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am a professional in the QA area and used to writing documentation as a part of my job, and am going to take the "challenge". Thanks for the offer to host the info. Give me a week or so (i'm very busy with some chip-level failure analysis right (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Great!!! I know Gavin's toolset works for Win98, you might ask if you can pinch a copy and host it on your site. I'm not against building the tools, or the tools themselves. In fact, the GNU assembler and debugger (and m4) were the tools I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) No argument from me here. Forth is not very popular anymore with the advent of really good C compilers for embedded processors (my specialty). BUT if you want a way to interactively control your LEGO bots, and have alook at the insides of the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Like I said, I'm willing to host such a site for at least a year if others would like to contribute. That offer includes any necessary binaries for other tools as well- pbFORTH, NQC, etc. -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) platform. (...) Same here.. That Gavin package...that might have been the one I downloaded...but even that one had a crazy directory structure, and all the compiled EXE's had names about 16 letters long! How about something simple like GCC (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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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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