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(...) Here is a suggestion for those who are trying it on NT. (I can't right now- access problems :( In Makefile.common, line 20, add the flag -nostdinc (i.e., line 20 should read "COPT =-O2 -fno-builtin -fomit-frame-pointer -nostdinc"). (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS-0.2.2
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(...) well, i got it and compiled everything using linux 2.2.13 and glibc 2.01. My native compiler is gcc 2.95.1, for cross compiling i built gcc 2.95.2, after applying the rcx-interrupt patch. compiling the dll and makelx utilities was a little (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hapless WinNT user
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Apparently, standard gcc include files are processed as well. This should never happen, as legOS defines everything on its own. Maybe there's an additional command-line switch for that? -Y or something? Good luck, Luis - I have access to a NT box in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hapless WinNT user
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I'm afraid these are the same errors that were reported with 0.2.1. It would appear that it is looking at a very long and convoluted path which happens to include the standard gcc, not just the cross-compiler. But that is just a guess based on a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Hapless WinNT user
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That's me, trying to use legOS 0.2.2 on WinNT with CygWin. I'm using the same tools that worked for me for legOS 0.1.7. Make complains when it tries to build dll, specifically when it tries to compile loader.c. I get a bunch of redefined symbols and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS-0.2.2
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Hello, legOS-0.2.2 is out. Generating user programs doesn't require perl anymore, and several bugs have been fixed. Get it at (URL) "Nieder mit den Zitaten!" -Markus L. Noga <markus@noga.de> (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: legOS patches
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Hi Frank, first, let me thank you for your effort! It's only through collaboration that we can keep this system evolving. (...) This looks very well thought out. Originally, I didn't want to reset motors, sensors or networking, because it makes for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Whatever happened to the arbitrary motor code? Lou had given me the impression (ages ago) that there was a solution for 0.2.0, but I don't see it. Is someone still working on it? I can give it a shot if no one else is looking at it... -Luis (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 0.2.1 API
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That was me. Sorry Luis - I've been outta touch lately. Kevin (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: makelx issues
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According to Luis Villa: (...) I'll post the new version this weekend, then ;-) (...) It will be for convenience only with the new release - all front- and backends are integrated, so it's only Make that needs to know about program locations. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Networking
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I saw mention of adding UDP support to the legOS Network and was curious if anyone had started work on it. I'd like to start a project where multiple RCXs communicated with each other and could communicate learned information to each other. The (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: makelx issues
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(...) Hmm. Well, I'll put off testing on windows then- I don't have permission (I don't think) to put perl on those boxes. (...) It turns out that just putting the legOS/util in the path did the trick. I had asssumed that was just for convenience, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: makelx issues
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Hi Luis, (...) I rewrote makelx-back - it's called makelx now, and it doesn't require perl anymore. I just didn't post it yet, as it didn't merit a 0.2.2 release just yet. At least in my eyes. For now, try and insert a line into makelx that prints (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Updating the Web based compilers?
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Would it be possible for any of the very kind people who maintain the LegOS Web Based Compilers be able to update their compilers to the latest 0.2.1 version of LegOS? Dying to try out the new programming features... Dave Chen (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | makelx issues
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I'm trying to use 0.2.1 and having problems- no executables are appearing in the demo/ directory. Stepping through the make, I can see that the .dc1, .dc2, etc. files are being made (whether or not correctly I have no idea.) Running make-lx (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 0.2.1 API
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Never mind- did it myself. Thanks anyway... -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | 0.2.1 API
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I seem to remember that someone here installed doxygen and generated a new set of API docs for 0.2.0. Am I correct in that? Or am I smoking something? If that is the case, I'd love to hear from you- a copy would be real nice to re-link from the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | rcx tools setup
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I have following problem with setting up the rcx tools (the old ones, distributed with legOS-0.1.7): I set up the Makefile.common to properly point to my paths: TOOLPREFIX=/home/eri...tachi-hms- LEGOS_ROOT=/home/eri...gOS-0.1.7/ when I run make I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX-enhanced egcs
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I just downloaded the new rcx tools, unfotunately the gcc dies (segmentation fault, even if I run the gcc only (with no parameters). any ideas what's going on? does it require glibc2.1? any settings? TIA erik (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | IR
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Hi All. Is there a way to set the IR transmitter to something like 'long range mode'? I would like to have a more powerful beam for proximity detection. I've tried lnp_logical_range(1), doesn't seem to make a difference. The problem is that I don't (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS-0.2.1
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Hi Jeffrey, that's an OS issue - your host system should define O_ASYNC. Some older systems define FASYNC instead, try that one. You can work around this more elegantly, too: #ifndef O_ASYNC #define O_ASYNC FASYNC #endif And hope for the best. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: legOS-0.2.1
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(...) ==bulk of message removed (...) I'm getting a compile error when building the dll utility - an undefined symbol 'O_ASYNC' forgive my ignorance but how do I fix this? Thanks in advance, -=RoboCoder=- (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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I hate to admit it, but the version of Turbo C++ I just pulled out is 1.00. I departed from the Borland compiler shortly after acquiring this version and did not keep up with advances. Would I gain any advantages by finding a later version, or (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Yeah. Not sure about the hardware interface, though. Would it be possible to run the DOS executable to generate a binary and then download it otherwise? I too am not sure what this whole discussion is about- if it is just NQC, then it is (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Wes and Dave, I pulled out an ancient copy of Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS. It compiles most of the code but chokes on the >8 character file names. I might have to try Microsoft VC++ next....to make a DOS executable. I also found a DOS C Comm library (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Wes, A good place to start with the porting is to grab the latest NQC source code from www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc and take a look at the family of PSerial classes in the platform directory. Create a new class (e.g. PSerial_dos) that (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: legOS-0.2.1
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Cool! If no one else does, I'll try to get it working on Windows next week, along with the rest of the HOWTO push. Don't hold your breath, though :) -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RELEASE: LegoSim -- another LegOS Simulator
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Nice picture :-) I added this to the legOS tools page. Are you going to do 0.2.1? Markus. (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, legOS 0.2.1 is out. No, I'm not working full time on legOS - this is just a day's work. Apart from minor bug fixes, a new file format for user programs is introduced, along with the tools to support it. The dynamic loader is a standalone C (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LegOS newbie wants more info.
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Thanks Sergey. I was aware of Luis' fine HOWTO. I was actually trolling to see if Luis would offer a preview of the 0.2.0 version ;) I have never heard of doxygen but will grab a copy and see what that gives for documentation. Kevin (...) decided (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RELEASE: LegoSim -- another LegOS Simulator
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Cool! I'll add this to the HOWTO when I do the 0.2.0 update. Are there any plans on the horizon for either emuLegOS or LegOSim to update to 0.2.0 anytime soon? Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RELEASE: LegoSim -- another LegOS Simulator
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RELEASE: LegoSim A UNIX-based Simulator for LegOS with an Applet-GUI LegoSim is (yet another) simulator for LegOS. URL: (URL) another simulator? At the time the project started, there was no other simulator. Once Emulegos was announced, we did not (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS newbie wants more info.
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(...) I'd suggest just browsing the source. It's nicely written, so it's quite easy to understand. Most demos that I've seen are for an older version of LegOS, anyway, and require porting. The API reference is available on the website, and I think (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS newbie wants more info.
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Thanks for the advertisement, Marco. I thought I'd let you all know that I'm going to try to get started on the conversion of the HOWTO to 0.2.0 next week, as I have a large Java project due Monday, but the rest of the week will be devoted to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS newbie wants more info.
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(...) decided (...) the (...) demo (...) demo (...) Hi Kevin, look at the excellent legOS HOWTO by Luis Villa: (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS newbie wants more info.
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Hi everyone. I just got my Robotics Invention System 2 weeks ago and decided to not even try the Lego software. I also just got the O'Reilly book in the mail. I have been able to compile LegOS 0.2.0a and download firmare & demo programs. Can someone (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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(...) I'm willing to cover the DOS port since I'm working on a DOS->RCX comm project already. I already have my HP LX200 doing minimal comm with the RCX with hopes of having it ride alongside as a computational component. -Wes Matchett (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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(...) I'll start by pulling the 4x code into the NQC source base. That should make it trivial to build a stand-alone command line based downloader for Win32 (95/nt/98), Linux, Solaris, and Mac 68k/ppc under MPW. We could also get Win3.1 and DOS (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: legOS limitation
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Hi Colin, (...) The one task per priority level requirement is gone at least since March. There is a priority chain mechanism now, with round-robin scheduling within a priority level. (...) Yes, a task won't die while higher-priority tasks are (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IR questinos and more
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Hi Sergey, (...) if you intend only to transmit, you may just disable receiving altogether. (...) for an axle. yes, angle=rotation. (...) using the rotation sensor. otherwise, slippage may occur. night, markus. (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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