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(...) I have working IR code, but it does not work with LegOS. It works with that "custom, as-yet-unreleased version of Librcx" I mention every so often. It probably wouldn't take much to port it to LegOS. Changes would be: - modify hook to get a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: firmdl for Win32? (Re: random numbers)
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(...) I can compile it for use with Cygwin (Unix for NT), but since I have not (yet) figured out how to configure and use the serial port under NT, there is no NT version as of yet. But there are other firmware downloaders for NT already. To compile (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The firmware supports random numbers using some method that whose name I can't remember at the moment. Something about feedback. Anyways, the algorithm there boils down to: int seed; int rand (void) { char bit; bit = (seed & (1 << 1)) >> 1; (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: random numbers
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(...) The author claims it has very good spectral properties, but I have no way of testing that. The only other reference I have found to it on the net is from a group at the University of Salzburg, who state that it performed well in their tests. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: random numbers
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(...) You could either take just the source file out of gnulibc and link it in, or you could change your setup to actually use the gnulibc (which is what I am doing, although not with legOS). (...) It depends on what you want the RNG for. If all you (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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