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Dave ... although at this point I'm not using non-standard firmware, I'd like to cast my vote for option (2). The command line may be a bit "unwieldy", but (2) gives the best solution. Thanks, - Nick - Dave Baum wrote: [snip] (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem downloading srec file to RCX
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(...) In the process of adding support for quad-speed download to nqc I noticed a bug in the firmware download code that caused problems with short downloads. This may (or may not) account for your problem. Either way, the bug will be fixed next (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Play tunes with legOS: "Wir sind die Roboter"
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Cool. There is something quite appropriate about using a lego to play Kraftwerk :) -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Play tunes with legOS: "Wir sind die Roboter"
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well, yesterday i promised to post some header file that makes it easy to program the sound timer for playing tunes in a memory saving way - here it is. ( see below, file notedefs.h ) the numbering scheme is N_<key>[m]_<number_of_octave> N_A_0 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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To whom it may concern: (I think this means Carsten :) This was the response I got from our resident Solaris/Linux god, conveniently named Karsten. He believes this one-line fix should have similar behavior. I can't test it (haven't been able to get (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem downloading srec file to RCX
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Yes, I encountered the same thing with nqc. However, the download works fine with firmdl.exe. Jonathan (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | HOWTO back up
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Sorry about the brief outage. The HOWTO is back up (though still not up to date.) Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS 2.2 on solaris
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Carsten- I asked a local solaris guru, and he wrote me what could be a helpful note on solaris aio. I've filed it (apparently) in the wrong folder, but I'll try to post it tomorrow. He seems to believe that it wouldn't be all that hard to make the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Play tones with legOS !
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I can't think of any possible reason why I would ever use this, but it is still cool... it's great to come back and see that people (other than Markus) have been working on stuff. My two cents on all of that tomorrow- -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Because dsound_play currently doesn't work for me, and because i wanted to make some noise under legOS with little memory and CPU footprint, i wrote a little function that plays arbitrary tones without using interrupts. I allows to play any (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Even more networking stuff
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OK, So I finally got LNP to do something :) I have a very simple program on one rcx which sends out something to another rcx which the second rcx gets in. Its a good first step :) However being the difficult people we are we would like to be able to (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: problem downloading srec file to RCX
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(...) Just because it compiled, and is from a book, does not mean it is compiled correctly. Once again, please try and load the LEGO firmware using all of the tools. Once this works, grab a known good alternate SRECORD file like Kekoa's little LCD (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem downloading srec file to RCX
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(...) PROGRESS REPORT: Problem persists when I try to download the SREC file for a (successfully compiled) slightly larger program (~30 lines) given on p200 of Knudson's book. (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: more networking questions
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(...) Your msg is propably not well formed enough. Just fetch a copy of nqc_src_1.2 or higher (unix, mac and lesser OS-es available) and you end up with a command ./nqc -msg XXX where XXX is a magic number :-) Which translates to a valid msg. If you (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: problem downloading srec file to RCX
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(...) Ok, the first thing I would do is that the known good firmware (firm0309.lgo) loads with all of the tools that you are interested in. The next thing is that any custom image you put in the RCX may or may not respond to the delelte firmware (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Bad things happen when I try to use the firmware download tool from the NQC environment to download an SREC file produced by either Web cross compilor. After a long wait, during which the bar graph that tracks loading progress lengthens, I get (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: quick copy of legOS howto?
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A new copy is now up at www.duke.edu/~liv/HO...OWTO.html. That should be 100% up to date (which is of course out of date, but you get the idea :) Have a good weekend, everyone- Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: quick copy of legOS howto?
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Argh. Sorry about this, folks- no idea what the problem is, and the machine is not remotely accessible in any way, and I'm in at home (in Miami) while the box is still at school (in North Carolina). If you still need a copy, I may be able to find a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | more networking questions
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Will the lnp task which is doing the receiving only wake up the next layer up if the message is properly formed. Currently here is my program -- start of longish bit of code -- #include <conio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <dsensor.h> #include (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: using lego network protocol + collobartion on project??
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(...) I am still really battling with this. I have tried to hack the "program.c" which from what I understand is the code that the RCX uses to download legOS onto itself. I have gotten a very small subset of that program to compile but it seems to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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