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Matt, I have been working with Michael Zapp on "porting" brickOS to the Mac OS X. We too had a fairly easy time with the binutils (ver 20020918). And both of us had issues with GCC although we have been working on Ver 3.1. I have not kept up with (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS on Mac OS X
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I'm trying to compile BrickOS on Mac OS X. I'm actually surprised at how well it's been going considering it looks like no one has tried it yet. I've compiled gnu binutils-2.13.1 hosted on darwin6.4, targeted at h8300. That seemed to work fine out (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IR port Communication
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(...) have you try to look at lnp.c and lnp-logical.c ? See the old version there are not the remote command it's easier It seems that lnp-logical.h use the S_RDR byte to understand what is send on the IR port look at this void rx_core(void) { (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | IR port Communication
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ERIKA is an RTOS(erika.sssup.it). The kernel of ERIKA does not support the the serial port communication through the IR port. I want to add that functionality to ERIKA. My final task will be to to develop an application the will allow communication (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Gcc/BrickOS installation issues
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You did build binutils first didn't you? (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Installing full BrickOS (in an easier way)
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Carson, Sorry I don't have these packaged together but here is some more hints. One hint when downloading cygwin modules is to change the package listing view. In the upper left hand "Select Packages" window is a button labeled "View". Click on it (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Installing full BrickOS (in an easier way)
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(...) What files do you mean? BrickOS itself comes in only one file: brickos-VERSION.tar.gz Do you mean binutils and gcc? Well, that's not many other files. Max. (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Installing full BrickOS (in an easier way)
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I am trying to install the full version of BrickOS. However, there are many files to download. Does anyone have all the files zipped together? thanks -- ===...=== Carson Au carson.au@myrealbox.com www.thunderobotics.zzn.com ===...=== (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Gcc/BrickOS installation issues
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(...) Not so. Here is the script I use. I suspect that the buildgcc.sh may have omitted to make sure the newly-installed binutils were in the PATH whilst building gcc. Max. BEGIN-SCRIPT #!/bin/bash # Syntax: ./build-h8x (binutils-srcdir|gcc-srcdir) (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Gcc/BrickOS installation issues
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(...) BricxCC page. (URL) Hansen (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Gcc/BrickOS installation issues
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(...) It is extremely difficult to get GCC to build under cygwin. I would highly recommend installing the pre-built binaries from Hitachi's website. I have a set of instructions at (URL) Hansen (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Gcc/BrickOS installation issues
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Hi, I'm trying to compile Gcc/BrickOS under cygwin. I have latest version of BrickOS. I tried running ./buildgcc.sh, and the last few lines of that were: bc -I. -I/build/gcc-2.95.2/gcc -I/build/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/config -I/build/gcc- 2.95 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | lnpd patch
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I someone currently maintaining the lnpd code ? In the case someone does: I do propose a patch for stub.c in liblnp. Because when ublock_rcv() gets executed in lnp_logical_write the SIGIO signal becomes unblocked when executing a lnp_logical_write (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.4
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Version 3.3.7.4 fixes a bug where editing large files was extremely slow. If you thought editing large files was slow in BricxCC you may want to try this new release. It is now significantly faster. Users with low-end machines may see a speed (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: compile error with pid_t
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(...) Somewhere along the way the terminology changed from 'process id' to 'thread id'. So it should work if you change it to tid_t . I ran in to the same problem a while ago when trying to learn how to use threading based on an old example. Rob (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compile error with pid_t
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(...) pid_t is no defined type. Regards, Michael (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compile error with pid_t
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Hi, I am having some compile problems. This is how the beginning of my sample program #include <conio.h> #include <dbutton.h> #include <dmotor.h> #include <dsensor.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/tm.h> #include <rom/system.h> pid_t (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.3
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This release fixes a problem where opening a file with an associated desktop file (same path and filename but with a .dsk extension) took a very long time. If you are using the desktop feature (which you would have had to turn on via the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Lego RCX Emulator
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(...) I have tried standard firmware and it works. Theoretically lejos should work too, there is no firmware specific code. The previous tar.gz file missed the TCL script for the GUI. I just updated the file. Also there are more features such as (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego RCX Emulator
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This looks really cool. Have you tried it with the standard Lego firmware, or lejos? Will you be creating a sourceforge project for this? Can't wait to try it out. mark (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego RCX Emulator
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(...) ... (...) page, printing hELLo worLd on its LCD display. Me, I very nearly made the mistake of not clicking thru to see that page, whoops. Pat LaVarre (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lego RCX Emulator
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Hello, In the last weeks I have started building a Lego RCX emulator. Unlike emulegOS it doesn't emulate the brickOS API, but instead it emulates the h8300 processor and the peripherals. This means that you can even use it to debug your kernel. The (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | quartet networking code
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A few months ago, I wrote a short program called "quartet" that would let a variable number of RCX bricks running LegOS play back a song in unison. I've made it available at (URL) . It should compile cleanly under Debian's legOS package. I don't (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Windows XP
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Thanks Max, without the z option it worked fine Vik "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net> wrote in message news:000501c2e0ba$9f...pomello... (...) download. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BricxCC
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Hi, I have been trying my hand at a bit of NQC for the BrickOS firmware recently and working with BricxCC. So far it has been good fun although I was wondering if anyone has any tips for getting LNP to run on my brick. As there is an option in the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Windows XP
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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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| | measure distance traveled
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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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