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(...) Your download is corrupted, or, your browser un-gzipped it during download. Try untarring without the z option, if that doesn't work, re-download. Max. (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS on Windows XP
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Hi, I went to the BrickOS website and followed all the installation instructions but when i try to untar the files in Cygwin i get the following error message gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BricxCC announcement
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BricxCC is a lot of fun to support - fixing bugs, adding useful new features, and answering lots of questions via email. I hope to be able to continue working with BricxCC for a very long time to come. But it does take time. And software development (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Accurate Timing
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Hello! I just started using brickOS and am trying to use it as a programmable function generator. As such, I'm trying to get good repeatability on cycle time. It appears that at 'random' times, the RCX scheduler(?) is interrupting my program to do (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.10 avail for testing
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The brickOS team is pleased to announce our next test release. We are heading for our formal brickos-1.0.0 release but anticipate at least one more test release before then. Details regarding how to provide feedback are at (URL) can download from (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | More warning cleanup - const qualifier ignored on asm
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In include/sys/bitops.h : // g++ warns about __asm__ const. we define the problem away. // the CXX symbol is predefined in the Makefile // #ifdef CXX # define ASMCONST #else # define ASMCONST const #endif But CXX is *not* defined in the Makefile. In (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Trivial warning fix
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This avoids an "implicit declaration of exit" warning. Max. Index: util/firmdl/mkimg.c ===...=== RCS file: /cvsroot/brickos/bri.../mkimg.c,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -p -r1.1 mkimg.c --- util/firmdl/mkimg.c 20 Aug 2002 03:04:29 -0000 1.1 +++ (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Declaration of kernel_critsect_count
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(...) Your request couldn't be more timely as I'm wrapping up a 0.2.6.10 test release this weekend. I've made this change in CVS and you will see it in the .10 test release. As I publish the 0.2.6.10 test release I'll post a message here explaining (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Declaration of kernel_critsect_count
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kernel_critsect_count is declared volatile in kernel/critsec.c, but without the volatile keyword in include/sys/critsec.h - this upsets gcc3. Please could these declarations be reconciled? Thanks, Max. (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: dll and the USB tower
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I have the same problem (I posted a note 3 days ago "Problem with Brickos ..." # 20311). In addition I don't get firmdl3 to download the firmware. Are you running Windows or Linux? Hans (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | dll and the USB tower
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Hi, I downloaded brickOS 0.2.6 and patched it to use the USB tower. All works well (firmdl3 is patched correctly, the module goes in, I can make my own .lx files), except for dll. When I try to download a .lx file into the RCX, dll hangs. The LED (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: H8300 Cross Compiler for Mac OS X (a start ...)
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Once again, WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! I have NO prior experience with the Mac or Mac OS X. So use these instructions AT YOUR OWN RISK. I am NOT responsible for any damage you might cause to your machine. Within step 5, you can download gcc ver 3.1 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: measure distance traveled
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(...) I'd use a dual differential drive with (one motor fwd/rev, one motor turns) to ensure a straight line of travel and the a rotation sensor to measure the wheel rotations. If you don't have a rotation sensor use a light sensor to emulate one. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: measure distance traveled
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I'm not a professional or anything, but your idea could run into the robot pulling to one side, and not going the exact 1 meter. if you had two rotation sensors (not exactly RPM sensors), the error would be greatly reduced in both the distance and (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, I'm a CS student and I have to complete a practical assignment in which a robot has to drive 1 meter straight forward, make a 90 degrees turn and then drive another meter (course administrators will also place obstacles which have to be (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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(...) Say "directory naming semantics" instead of "FS", and you are correct. And yes, that is one of the core features of Cygwin! (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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(...) What do you mean /usr/local/bin? That's a Linux directory, unless Cygwin somehow emulates a complete Linux FS. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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To the group, please. I will quietly delete any responses not copied to the group. (...) Is there h8300-hitachi-hms-gcc.exe in /usr/local/bin ? Max. (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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Sending this to lugnet.robotics.rcx....ugnet.com. I'm not the sole source of brickOS wisdom. (...) Define "everything". (...) Did you build a cross-compiler? Unsurprisingly, Cygwin doesn't come with a compiler targeted for a lego brick. Max. (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | H8300 Cross Compiler for Mac OS X (a start ...)
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With access to a Mac OS X 10.2 this week I have made an attempt to build the cross compiler set under Mac OS X. Currently I have an issue with sysinfo.c with the binutils build. But for those interested here are my steps so far. I will post more as (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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(...) Unpack. Do NOT make realclean or make depend. Just make. If you get an error SAY WHAT IT IS! Max. (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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I uninstalled everything and followed what the website says.. and the exact same thing happened with the make depend command and I got an error with the make command too... weird. --Jason (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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(...) fontdesign.exe is compiled as part of brickOS. The makedepend error you see if a bug in brickos (fixed in CVS). Just don't do "make depend" for now. Also, you can't "make strip" until you've done "make". Max. (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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I do not belive fontdesign.exe does exsist because I did a a search on my computer and nothing showed up.I did follow all of commands that was in the installation guide on the brickos webisite. However, I did download the H8 tools instead of trying (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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Jason, Try using ./firmdl3 ../boot/brickos.srec this would work if you were in the util folder; from the main brickos folder it would be util/firmdl3 boot/brickos.srec the .srec file is now called brickos.srec 8-) // Joe (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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I had exactly the same problems not so long ago so i followed the instructions from this site and uninstalled the brickos i had and used the one they had provided following the link. So go to this site (URL) let me know how you get on. Good luck (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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(...) You mean brickOS 0.2.6.09.newconf2 (...) Does fontdesign.exe exist? What commands did you run before this? (...) Did you actually compile brickOS? List all the commands you ran between unpacking the brickos tarball and the first error (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | newbie troubles (now they in packs of 2)
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Before you read.. i'm an absolute newbie when it comes to brickos and linux. I am running the cygwin environment in windows 98 and brickos 2.6.09.newconf2 Ok when I try to run the make strip comand this pops up strip fontdesign.exe strip: (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP problem
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Hi, I have read a lot about lnp but i still don't much about setting it up for windows, as most documentation is about linux. So could someone please let me know anything about the configuration of winLNP. I have tried a test a program i found but (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP problem
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Hi, src/rcx.[ch] and rcx/remote.c. This may sound stupid but I was wondering if you have to download both these files to the rcx? Anyhelp would be great Thanks Andrew ___...___ Chat online in real time with MSN Messenger (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP problem
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(...) You need to compile remote.c for the RCX, that's the part running on the RCX. rcx.c and rcx.h define an interface for your application to use the functions provided in remote.h. Namely to turn on/of/break/reverse the motor ports and to read (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: command framing as seen from kernel/program.lrkey_handler
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(...) Just to be more certain we're understanding each other, if that's ok, I'll mention that ... 1) Newbie that I am, I have no clue how frequently brickos switches on bit masks. I wonder if only to decode xD2 RemoteCommand. 2) Using log2(xx & -xx) (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: command framing as seen from kernel/program.lrkey_handler
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"Pat LaVarre" <ppaatt@aol.com> wrote in message news:H9n64q.B2p@lugnet.com... (...) I dunno, haven't found one yet, though. (...) choice (...) Touché. Yes, tables, overlooked that. (...) the (...) expensive (...) I think that smaller code size is (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: command framing as seen from kernel/program.lrkey_handler
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(...) Mmmmm. I am curious, if that's ok. To get log2(xx) in O(1) time we could fetch (p[xx & -xx]) i.e. fetch our choice of the bytes at offset x 0 1 2 4 8 10 20 40 80 from some p we like. Merely standard C can't easily express that old idea without (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: command framing as seen from kernel/program.lrkey_handler
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(...) (URL) The missing (key & -key) might interest people who haven't used log2 & - to (...) number (...) and (...) log2(key (...) If I'm interpreting your shorthand correctly: there's no fast way to execute log2() on the H8 (i.e. no O(1) (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | command framing as seen from kernel/program.lrkey_handler
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(...) Thanks for the tip, in reply here is a perhaps stunningly ignorant walkthru of how brickos frames standard commands, viewed by the newbie Me from kernel/program.lrkey_handler. The missing (key & -key) might interest people who haven't used (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | brickOS in an Operating Systems Classroom
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***...*** * brickOS in an Operating Systems Classroom * ***...*** Hi. I just want to report on a little project we did here at East Carolina University last semester. Although we never posted to this newsgroup for help, we need to thank you all for (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | make compiling error
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When I try to compile my program I get this error: /course/cs148/bin/h8...hi-hms-gcc -O2 -fno-builtin - fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -I. -I/course/cs148/include -c sound.c /course/cs148/bin/h8...chi-hms-ld -T /course/cs148/lib/brickOS.lds -relax (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: [ brickos-Patches-668115 ] Make brickOS work with up-to-date Binutils
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(...) https://sourceforge....5&group_id =58151 (...) Any comments on this? It would be nice to have this issue fixed in CVS. Max. (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCXTTY-Variable Problem, calling ./firmdl3 ../boot/brickOS.srec
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Absolutly, Thanks :-) (...) whether (...) setup. (...) something (...) newConf2 (...) a (...) _WIN32 (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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