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My son and I have been looking BrickOS but one sticking point is that we have a slow connection at home which makes getting large packages hard. In such cases, I just download the files at work and burn the files into CD-RW and bring them home. Is (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: strange motor behaviour
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(...) The problem is that the upper memory area (0xf000-0xf800) is connected to both RAM and motor output. Every byte written here is also interpreted as motor command. The latest CVS version of BrickOS has fixed this (this memory is written only (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: strange motor behaviour
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(...) (this should be your user programm of course) (...) and i've been a bit too quick, it should be 40*40*1 (you're allocating char's), still thats' about 1.5kByte, that is, 1/10th of the memory available to you as user, so the following reasoning (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: strange motor behaviour
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(...) well, the RCX only has 32Kbyte of memory of wich half is used by brickOs the remaining half should fit you user programm and all runtime stacks and heaps, so allocating 40*40*2Bytes(the minimum for a pointer in an 32Kbyte adresspace) will need (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I wonder if somebody can help me wíth the following problem. In general my program is running okay but when I change the attached data definition, the two motors I use show very strange behaviour (just making some noise and moving very slow (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems with BrickOS Installation
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Carson, It looks like you missed the tar package.You can check to see what Cygwin packages have been installed on your system by using the cygcheck command at the cygwin command prompt. Try cygcheck -c If the output is too large for your dos window (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problems with BrickOS Installation
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Hi, When I was at the stage of No.3 in the sourceforge.net documents (Installing the BrickOS files), I typed in cd / tar xvfz brickos-0.2.6.0.tar.gz as it should be, but then it said that command 'tar' cannot be found?? Could anyone please help me? (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS Tutorials
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Hi, I am new to programming the RCX in BrickOS. Is there any tutorials on the web as a introduction? Thanks -- ===...=== Carson Au carson.au@myrealbox.com www.thunderobotics.zzn.com ===...=== (21 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS on Mac OS X
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(...) Well, I've had a pretty successful couple of days... If you go to (URL) you will find a tar ball that contains all of the Brick OS utilities compiled for OS X. I've tested them and have successfully downloaded BrickOS and a couple of their (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | linux and the USB IR Tower
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Hi, I have been trying to use my lego mindstorms kit along with the USB IR Tower in linux. I have had limited success. I managed to patch the distribution so that firmdl3 recognizes the usb device. I compiled a module for the USB tower device. It (...) (21 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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