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Well, this is a bad week to say the least, but I hope to have rudimentary HOWTO stuff for 0.2.0 within two weeks. Thanks for everything, Markus! Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | legOS 0.2.0 released
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Hello, legOS 0.2.0 is out. If you like to program your Mindstorms in C, or if you would like to try, it has become better than ever. Dynamic linking and program loading are fully supported now, as well as unreliable LNP datagram networking. Lots of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX Firmware and SP
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Hi All, After a very frustrating weekend of fiddling with pbFORTH, I caved and asked Kekoa to help with a problem I was having with read_sensor() and pbFORTH. The problem we (mostly he) unearthed has to do with the SP and RCX firmware routines, so I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re:Solved?? rotation sensor problem
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On Sep.10,I posted the message regarding rotation-sensor problem. I realized that the first threshold value '0x6fc0' in CURRENT_STATE is too small. Some sensors give raw values around 0x7000. #define CURRENT_STATE (raw<0x6fc0?STATE_0:...STATE_3))) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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(...) If you deactivate complements or headers in the ROM protocol, then the ROM does not transmit exactly what you might want it to. See the comments for init_serial in lib/rom.h of the Librcx distribution. If you use the default mode settings, or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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(...) Bug, what bug? Have I missed something? My Tcl based uploader broke when Scriptics released 8.2, and now it works again. Seems I wasn't handling the rcx_recv parameter in my equivalent functions... Anyways, could you elaborate on the bug a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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(...) I'll have to test it out in my office, which has difficult lighting. Errors in transmission can often break things in unexpected ways, leaving you in states that are hard to recover from, often resulting in the downloader aborting after giving (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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Hi, on my machine, original firmdl3 took 45.2s to download firm0309.lgo. - I increased packet size to 240 bytes, gaining roughly 2 seconds. - Added packet size prediction and bytewise decoding with a state machine (The decoder spent 50 ms per packet (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Is this the movie where there are guys competing in unassisted (except by a huge weight) deep dives? Those guys are mental... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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(...) [mlnoga@mauve mlnoga]$ make firmdl3 cc firmdl3.c -o firmdl3 firmdl3.c:146: rcx_comm.h: No such file or directory firmdl3.c:569: srec.h: No such file or directory make: *** [firmdl3] Error 1 Seems to me we're both getting a little hasty here (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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