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(...) You can't run multiple downloaded programs at once, but you can have several programs installed and pick which one to run. Each program can have many threads. (...) Yes, the compiled files depend on the reloc information for the kernel. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) i'm surely not the definitive person to answer this questions, so don't take the follwowing 100%'ly: Yes there is a loader. It's activated whenever a certain kind of packet arrives on LNP addressing port 0. The loading of the program requires (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes (...) Yes (...) I have not tried it and the downloader task seams to be disabled while a program is running. I'll hope, i can find time to read the source :) (...) Aehhhhh yes, maybe, i think so. .) (...) Yes Greetings Carsten ps: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! Could anyone please explain a little how the dynamic loading facility works in legOS? I don't seem to get at full grip on it... and I can't test it either, right now... Is there a loader on the RCX? Can apps be downloaded to the RCX whithout (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Tomorrow is a bad day, but expect it to be up and announced by midnight (EST) at the latest. -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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mike mcfarlane <mcfarlane_mike@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fot34E.JA4@lugnet.com... (...) I'll send it off to arthurdent on Monday morning. When Luis has the time, he'll make it available and (hopefully) let everyone here know of its (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All After my previous post saying how I was looking forward to a 'designed for 95/98whatever' I had a touch of guilt and want to learn. I followed the instructions on: (URL) appeared to be the most detailed. I believe I managed to compile (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Oh, I wish I had been a good boy at school and learned my Unix like I should have! Instead I fell for the lure of Win and an 'easy life' ¦-? I started trying to install LegOS today and am so far failing miserably, so you guys huge effort is like (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'll put whatever you guys want on arthurdent, which appears to be the closest thing we have to a "community" ftp/web server. I'll also be getting my own domain name soon, and so everything will be moved to that so that there will be (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I will send them to you via E-Mail. I've patched and tested them both and recently posted the diffs file on lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, but I have not received any feedback (for firmdl3) at all. :-( I've also wrote to Peter Van Beken and kekoa (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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Sorry Mario but seem that somebody have published some Lego Camera into lego minstorms site... -- ___...___ Ferrara Francesco Mario Ferrari <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message news:Fop2Mt.K2x@lugnet.com... (...) then (...) offen (...) files (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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Ok, I lied. I am missing one essential component. I absolutely need a copy of DLL.EXE that runs under Windows. I could also use a compiled copy of the latest version FIRMDL.EXE (I only have version 1). So far my tests are very encouraging. After (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have nearly completed putting together all the pieces for a development environment that runs natively under Windows. As deployed, it won't be able to rebuild the utility programs such as makelx.exe or the cross-compiler programs. This would (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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On one of my computers makedepend.exe refuses to work, though my other system doesn't have a problem (both are Win95). While researching the problem I ran across a discussion on GCC showing how to create dependency lists automatically. I plugged in (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Søren Hilmer <sh@itplus.dk> wrote in message: (...) Søren's right, the problem comes from Netscape that downloads the .rar files as text. Now Francesco has updated his page with a zipped version of his files and hope anybody can safely download (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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I had no problem downloading and unpacking the files. CU Bert Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Lego pBricks www.bvandam.net -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu@nospam.hotmail.com> Aan: (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The same happened to me when I downloaded using NetScape Navigator, I then used IE-5 and everything was fine (this tend to happen more and more offen typically with files NS does not know about, like .jar files). -- Søren (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I used WinRAR 2.6 and had no problems at all in uncompressing the downloaded files. This might depends on the fact that Francesco's page is in Italy and I'm in Italy too. I'll drop a line to Francesco pointing out the problem and suggesting he (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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Hello, i've written a proximity sensor for legOS 0.2.3 I hope, it'll be usefull to someone. Carsten ---...---SNIP HERE ---...--- /***...*** * Filename: ProximityLib.c * * * * Proximity Driver for legOS 0.2.3 * * the LightSensor is connected PORT 2 * (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes. See my review in another posting. :) (...) I managed to unpack the files on a Solaris machine, where RAR is version 2.1 or 2.2. I didn't try with an older version on Windows. regards, /Vlad (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sounds like a great idea. Almost like LegOS lite? I'm assuming that all the cool multi-tasking and LNP stuff isn't available. I got the WinRar 2.6 d/l'ed OK from ZDNet.com. However, I was sad to find that all the QC101 and the v102 patch .RAR were (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm in touch with Francesco via e-mail and invited him to join this group and present his work in person. Mario Web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The owner of (URL) , Francesco Ferrara, is not connected to this mailing list (or any robotics list for that matter) so that's why I posted this message for him. If you have questions, complaints, bugreports, anything please email him directly at (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 0.2.3 bug report
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(...) will (...) feelers. (...) This also happens if you have light sensors attached to the RCX. The only way to get the semi-random junk to go away with light sensors attached is to (duh) un-attach the light sensors, or turn the RCX on and off (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I used the cygwin make with no problems. alex "Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw@jps.net> wrote in message news:FoI8L1.LGz@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: firmdl3 on Winnt - no more problems!
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(...) NQC sends a command over the IR to what it expects to be the stock Mindstorms firmware. I know the `-d' option always reports the battery voltage so that may be it. In any case, it's not a problem, just ignore it. In my experience `nqc (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Paolo, Would you mind sharing that binary executable of firmdl3 ??? Maybe Kekoa should make executables available on his site? I tried using NQC -firmware but got "RCX not responding" after what appeared to be a successful download. Thanks, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Steven Vore <svore@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FoHy1L.G3p@lugnet.com... (...) I think the problem is in the make program. If I put the same command in a batch file (fully expanded command line) it works (both with command.com and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) IIRC, command.com imposes that length limit (I'm assuming you're on a PC here). -Steven (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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(...) Hmmm, I tried to download, and the RAR files are corrupted... am using the latest WinRAR... I would appreciate if the archives were available in other formats too, as I don't want to have to but WinRAR when I have other archivers already. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Command Line Length (and more)
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It looks like I have most of the problems solved. However, one serious problem seems to be related to the length of the command line. Either "make" or the OS is truncating the command line to about 127 characters. This causes several module builds (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) This seems very interesting! But I fear that having two different C development environments will split the development efforts... As a developer I wouldn't want to have to write my code for two platforms, so it would be nice to have some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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I just double checked my setting. Unfortunately, that was not the problem. Since it can find the compiler and build the .o files with no problem, TOOLPREFIX is definately set properly. Thanks anyway. Ben Jackson <ben@ben.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) When I first built legOS I discovered that I had TOOLPREFIX set wrong (Makefile.common) and gmake appeared to be ignoring rules for which the tools could not be found. So `cd boot; gmake legOS.srec' would fail with `no rule to make legOS.dis2' (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Perhaps I don't understand what needs to be done to get "make depend" to work properly. I'm working on a Win95 box. After exectuting this command for the kernel (in the boot directory) I do not end up with a complete ".depend" file. I get the error (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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If there are touch sensors pressed at the time the RCX is turned off there will be some semi-random junk left on the LCD display. If you power on the display is fixed, and you can remove/release the sensors, turn the RCX off and get a blank display. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | firmdl3 on Winnt - no more problems!
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Finally I got a firmdl3 version that FULLY works on Winnt, both in slow and fast mode! No more "write: permission denied" or "read: permission denied" problems... No more interrupted downloads at all on my system (NTWS 4 SP6a). Note: I've not tested (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (...) emacs runs great on windows. It has all of the syntax highlighting features and it can be set up to run makefiles from inside emacs. Might be a way to make the learning curve a little less steep (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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Having trouble getting the Hitachi H8 Mindstorm firmware compiler to run on a W95 platform? Francesco Ferrara has a ready to run installation on his website! (URL) . Download, un-rar, add c:\qc\bin to your path and you're all set. You can have your (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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I'm using LegOS 0.2.3 under a Slackware 7 Linux install and everything seemed to work perfectly to begin with. I've recently tried altering the kernel a bit -- everything compiled fine as far as I could tell. When I tried to use firmdl3 to download (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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