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(...) [SNIP] (...) Tyler, Where is compiler executable located on your system? Ed (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Please Help?! Problems with installing LegOS on WinXP
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Hi, Can anyone please, please help me with the installation of LegOS on my WinXP laptop? I have followed the instructions in "brickOS 0.2.6.10 Instructions for installing in WinXP" at (URL) to the letter but I still can't seem to get LegOS to run. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problems with USB Tower
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Hi there, I got a problem running my USB-Tower on Linux. I installed the LegoUSB-driver and it seems to work (i see it in /var/log/messages when i plug it in). But when i run firmdl3 i get the following message: /dev/usb/lego0: not a tty I tried it (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Zooming in robolab, printing in RCX
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Is there any way to zoom into the icons in robolab, they are a bit tiny and I wanted to know if I could make them look bigger so its easier to see. Also does the RCX Code (or RIS program that comes with the mindstorms kit) have the capability to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.faq, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Install problems on Linux RedHat 9
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(...) You should stay with this version if you don't want to use C++. (...) This is the newest compiler, I think. The problem with this is that the famous "multi line string literals" are not working any more. Mlsl have been marked as deprecated in (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Install problems on Linux RedHat 9
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(...) ... (...) ... Yes, no one has ported the C++ bits of brickOS to work with gcc3. Use gcc2, or restrict yourself to plain C. (...) ... (...) Yes, gcc3.3 removed support for multi-line string literals. The brickOS committers all seem to be rather (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Install problems on Linux RedHat 9
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Hi, I tried to install brickos-0.2.6.10 and have been unsuccessful. I started by going to rpmfind.net to get the h8300 binutils and gcc. The versions were: h8300-hms-binutils-2.11.2-1 h8300-hms-gcc-3.0.1-2 The brickos make failed with the following: (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | USB/Serial Converter
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Hi, folks. I've tried to connect to my RCX 1.0 (firmware 0328) from my laptop. Since I have only a serial IR tower, it works fine on my desktop PC, but communications won't work when I use a USB/serial converter to connect it to my laptop (there (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) (how the manual says to do data)? That's because I don't like to type more than is necessary! :-) Take this line for example: mov.b #0x02:8,r0h This line is doubly redundant. The destination operand is an 8-bit register so the other qualifiers (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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Ok, the motor stuff makes sense, I got a little confused with the shift thing. I looked at the proggamming manual some more and it explaned the @ (Register inderect) but I don't see why it is needed, also in you example you specify the data as (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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A direct link to the page with the documents is (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) rot 13 "fr" "se" (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) You should look at Kekoa Proudfoots documentation of RCX internals ((URL) and his librcx library to understand the calling convention for the ROM. Then get yourself the H8300 tools (gcc et al) somewhere, this includes assembler and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) mentioned previously) that describes the on chip I/O features of the H8 if you plan on doing any work with the sensors. (...) to (...) that (...) To turn on motor C forward you would do this: mov #0x02,r0h mov r0h,@0x80:8 The second (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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Cool, thanks I was able to find the doc here: (URL) post about the motor seems helpful, so if I understand right the way to run motor A forward would be "mov 0x030003,r0h mov 0x80,r0h" and for the motor C the same except 0x06? How does the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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Here's a more direct link for the H8 docs: (URL) down to the literature section and download the two PDFs. For assembly, I would recommend starting off with an installation of BrickOS and perusing the various source code files for the kernel. You'll (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) find the old documentation files is a bit tricky, it took me some time to figure them out. Anyway, take a look at: (URL) look at the product list. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Programming in Assembly
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I was interested in writing some assembly code for the lego mindstorm, I don't plan on writing an incredibly complex program though. I am learning asm for the z80 chip so I have a little experience. I only want a single threaded application with one (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Modifying the BrickOS source code
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Thanks Joe, it makes sense now and I understand it is something that is difficutl to explain esp, through a message board. Thanks for helping me out... Mike (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Modifying the BrickOS source code
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Here is a visual representation: [ KERNEL ]mm_start[ HEAP ] The heap will contain ALL of the following: User Programs, User Allocated memory, Kernel allocated memory (not including static/global variables and constants). The only thing that is prior (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Modifying the BrickOS source code
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(...) Thanks for the description Joe, but in the above paragraph you seem to contradict yourself, you say that mm_start is the end of kernel mode, but alos that user programs are located above mm_start I do not understand that part, did you mean (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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