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(...) Cool! I wish I could try it, but I'll wait until someone gets it running on Windows... :-) Les, I like the way you said: "I don't really know what I'm doing with this stuff. I just hacked 'till things worked." 8^) /Vlad (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All: I've got the C++ cross-compiler working for LegOS. I can write & download C++ programs with simple classes, objects, inheritance & polymorphism all working. See this link for details: (URL) find it hard to believe this has not been attempted (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) for creating some documentation on legOS. Sorry that I didn't think about this earlier, but the easiest way would be to just build upon Luis Villa's excellent HowTo!!! The problems are then if he agrees with it, and how to set up the whole (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) well, you could count on me as note-writer for lnp and maybe other stuff. I feel i won't have time to help in the 'orderly fashion thing', as of my experience this kind'a work can get really time-consuming if one want's to get it well done. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I looked closer at the readings, and the readings are okay for light backgrounds. For a dark one, however, the value is only half of the time the right one - for the other half 0x1F0 gets added to it... Anyone ideas why this is happening? (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Not many, I just begun to think about it. My first idea is to have a site where people could get in and write notes, comments or ideas aboiut each API or module. And have a small team that will gather all the information and write it down in a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hello Vlad, maybe i could help a little, do you have any ideas about the actual format and how we could organize things ? BTW, is seems to be impossible to email you directly -- is that intentionally ? --Martin (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Vlad (...) Yes I am interested in there being some documentation. Unfortunately I am just starting out with legOS so will not be able to help at present. Hopefully in the next few months I will be up to speed and would be more than happy to help (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! Just my 2-pence thoughts about the topic... I suppose nobody will argue with me that legOS isn't well documented, as it is now. Considering that legOS is still rather user-unfriendly, documentation is very important. someone said Markus is (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Why don't you use the system timer (sys_time)? With one timer is enough. Use relative times instead of absolute timers... Toni Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fp1BJI.E4M@lugnet.com... (...) timers? (...) handlers (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Mmm, yes. I was thinking about things like SetTimer and GetTimer, so that wakeup handlers can be used... as things are now (if I am not wrong) one has to directly work with the ROM... /Vlad (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You nicer than msleep() and sleep()? --Ben (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Before anyone replies to my previous message, found the problem. I have a light over my desk and this was interfering with the IR transmission. Turned the light off and moved the RCX a little closer to the tower and hey presto, all OK. Does legOS (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi I installed the win version of legOS and downloaded the firmware legOS.srec to both my RCX's. The older RCX from a 1.0 set seems to accept .lx files OK the first time after the firmware is downloaded. The new version will not accept any .lx (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I did some more experiments last night. My conclusion is that the majority of apparent 2-state transitions never actually occur (that is: the sensor does not actually travel through 2 states between two consecutive sensor readings). The order of the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! Did anyone write any 'nicer' wrapper functions for handling the RCX timers? Or am I blind and can't find them? 8^) /Vlad (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) more light and is working.... Erm... it isn't really working - it exhibits the same 'inverted' behaviour, looking for a white line on a black background... /Vlad (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! Maybe this is obvious for all experienced legOS users - I am displaying the values read from the light sensor on the LCD, and I get values of ~30 for light and ~520 for darkness... This seems very strange - is it the display wrong, or are these (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have replaced my batteries without erasing the firware several times. The trick is replacing the batteries one at a time with the brick turned off. You have then several (10 or so) seconds between each replace. If you leave the brick switched on (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Probably related to the garbage on the lcd that you get when turning off the RCX with a sensor active: if there is a light or rotation sensor or a pressed touch sensor connected to the RCX when you download firmware legOS will crash immediately (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) That's one of the reasons I got mine. I was trying to make a simple balancer when I built the pendulum I described (with 4.5 degree accuracy). There were a lot of problems with my mechanism, but the overriding problem was that the 0 point (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) which (...) I added code to assume that 2 step transitions were 2 steps in the last known direction of travel. The results were MUCH worse than just ignoring those steps, as the current code does. This seems to suggest that the 2-step (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I got a letter two days ago indicating that the two rotation sensors I ordered the first week in January are nicely on backorder and will ship in a month or so. This is similar to what I was told on the phone when I ordered them from Shop and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I tried hacking something like this into the old rotation sensor code, and it didn't go real smoothly, but is definitely a necessity (I think) if you want the sensor to handle very, very high speed apps. (...) I am. I'm almost tempted to steal (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) What exactly do you intend here, Martin? I spent quite some time working on this over the summer and in the fall, and had a great deal of problems but also some success. I'd be happy to help you out with my experiences if you have some idea (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It is very very interesting. I have worked the last weeks evenings to discover the fault in my concept, my modell and my Software. and I have discovered, that the fault can't be on my side. I discovered that my implementation of a fake (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi Ben, i think that's very interesting work you're doing, especially because i'd like to build sophisticated balancing bots, and already got 2 rotation sensors from lego world shop for this reason. I'm currently not actively working on that, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor mystery solved?
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I put in some debug code to catch rotations which skip a state (transitions like 3->1 or 0->2) which the legOS table `diff2change' currently translates to 0 steps (because we can't be sure whether that was 2 steps forward or 2 steps back). These (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: sending keepalive... ???
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Hi Rossz (...) Yes, I downloaded the legOS.srec on top of the existing Lego firmware and some programs. When you download the legOS firmware will anything currently in RAM be deleted? I'll try taking the batteries out for a while and starting again. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In my rush to get the package released I made "one more insignificant change". This resulted in a bad path setting being placed in the autoexec.bat file. At the end of the install skip rebooting and open autoexec.bat in the editor. The installer (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Thanks, your directions worked perfectly. (...) Originally, the line appended to autoexec.bat was (something like): set path=set path=c:\LEGOS\H8\BIN...ath%%path% which I altered to: set path=c:\LEGOS\H8\BIN...BIN;%path% (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor mystery solved?
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(...) old (...) The version I posted works with all cable lengths and battery strengths I have access to. I just extended the range of each state a bit toward the low battery end of the scale. --Ben (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: more user questions
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A general note, there is a README.WRI file. This includes information beyond what Markus originally wrote in README. Perhaps I should have deleted his README (I include it in README.WRI, anyway). Open your copy of MAKEFILE. You'll find this line: (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) If the readme file says the demo LX files are included, that is a mistake (or should I include them?). I'll have to correct it. As for your download problem, did you download the firmware first (firmdl3 legOS.srec)? LX files are relocatible (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I too have had my problems with this system. Perhaps they come from my inexperience with LEGOS or UNIX, which doubtless is apparent in my description below: Downloading and installing went well. Then, after correcting a minor SET PATH syntax error (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi You go to all the hassle of making LegOS available for us Windows users and still we have questions. I'm really struggling and can not find anything in the docs or Lugnet to help (that I understand) and so I would really apreciate some help. I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS for Windows
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Install ActivePerl ((URL) switch to the boot directory, and type MAKE. That's it. What you can't build with this package are the various command line tools (makelx.exe, firmdl3.exe, dll.exe), nor the cross compiler. Rossz (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rotation sensor mystery solved?
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(...) Will this version also work with fresh batteries and short cable, or do we have to change tables depending on the battery state ? (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Trying to understand dynamic loading
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(...) AFAIK, Markus is currently writing a new O'Reilly book about Mindstorms systems, which will cover legOS quite detailed. I also guess there will arise some up-to-date online documentation from this project. - Martin (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) When I wrote my original post I was afraid that major surgery was going to be required to fix this. The values with an extension wire are actually shifted into formerly invalid slots which are contiguous with the existing state groups. So the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | rotation sensor mystery solved?
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I was getting very erratic readings from a rotation sensor (if I put a pendulum on it and moved it back and forth the 0 position would wander all over the place). I started looking at the raw values from the sensor and comparing them with what the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Trying to understand dynamic loading
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Thank you all for the help. Now I can see things much better! Now that the Windows version finally works, I will be able to experiment a little... A thought: IMHO, one of the things that should be very high on the "to do" list is documenting legOS. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS for Windows
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(...) Yes, I tested it and it worked on my Win98! Great work!! Thanks! (...) Do you mean that the kernel can be rebuild on Windows? Which parts/utilities cannot be rebuilt? best regards, Vlad (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS for Windows
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For those of you overwhelmed by the work involved to get a viable legOS developement system on the Windows OS, legOS for Windows is now available. If you only wish to write dynamic downloadable programs for the RCX, this package is all you need. If (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS for Windows Finished!
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(URL) I haven't tested it myself, but WinlegOS 0.2.3 is now online. Many thanks are clearly due to Rossz for making this happen. If someone wants to volunteer to write up a quick description of it's use, let me know, and I'll post that along with (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Trying to understand dynamic loading
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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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| | Trying to understand dynamic loading
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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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| | Re: legOS for Windows Finished!
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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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| | Re: legOS for Windows Finished!
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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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| | Re: legOS for Windows Finished!
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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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| | legOS for Windows Finished!
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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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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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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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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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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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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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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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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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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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| | Proximity detector routines
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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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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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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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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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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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| | Re: Command Line Length (and more)
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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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| | Re: firmdl3 on Winnt - no more problems!
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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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| | Re: Command Line Length (and more)
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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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| | Re: Command Line Length (and more)
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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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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| | 0.2.3 bug report
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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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| | Re: InstallShield for 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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| | Re: PRGM button - am I missing something?
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(...) Yep, the option order was the problem on Windows. getopt does indeed happily ignores any options found after the first non-option. Thanks again! -Jeff p.s. And don't worry, I can take any Windows jabs you have to offer - I've heard 'em all. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: InstallShield for legOS
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"Peter Tewkesbury" <PJTewkesbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fo9syx.Ew7@lugnet.com... (...) for (...) the (...) a (...) compile (...) Why not use one of the many existing IDEs for this sort of stuff? Most programmers editors (emacs, vi (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: InstallShield for legOS
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Hi, I am new to RCX coding, and Legos, but I an a professional Developer for Windows (9x & NT). I was thinking about puting together a small IDE. Off the top my head, it whould include project management (Keep track of files in a program), Syntax (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | VLL Transmit for RCX (was: Micro Scout programming with VLL bar code: HOWTO)
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(...) hook up a light sensor, initialize it, and then use vll_send(code) to transmit. The little red LED on the light sensor blinks furiously. The Scout still does this far faster (about 3x) but it probably has some special hardware (not the least (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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| | Re: InstallShield for legOS
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(...) Ah, that's the mistake I had made. Looking closer, am I correct in assuming that Cygwin is only required to build the cross compiler? What about the utility program such as firmdll.exe? We can ignore the need to compile the cross-compiler. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: InstallShield for legOS
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"Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw@jps.net> wrote in message news:387CE039.2906B6...jps.net... (...) I think that you should still reconsider using Cygwin anyway. You can actually build much of the LegOS stuff without ever using the Cygwin shell, so (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | InstallShield for legOS
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As mentioned by Markus, I am working on an Windows InstallShield program for legOS. It is my hope to create, with assistance, a complete installation package for legOS and required tools. Running the installer will create a legOS developement (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Please provide diffs for legOS releases
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Hi Alex, I'll post a cvs rdiff later. Alex Wetmore schrieb: (...) Rossz Vamos-Wentworth is working on an InstallShield version for Windows. (...) There's a watchdog timer module on the RCX, which is currently unused in legOS. Shouldn't bee too (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Please provide diffs for legOS releases
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Today I had a bit of time on the bus so I went through the work of getting legOS working on my system. After I got it up and running I noticed that I was using 0.2.2 and that 0.2.3 was out (I started with 0.2.2 becuase the most recent instructions (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PRGM button - am I missing something?
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Ben Jackson schrieb: (...) OK, I'll change the docs and examples, then. Too bad, I thought position-independence very nifty indeed. Markus. (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: useful battery program
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Ben Jackson schrieb: (...) Saved my life a couple of times, when LNP was locking up the system in an entirely incomprehensible way. (I'd really appreciate "Unreachable code" warnings sometimes... or maybe they scrolled away.) (...) How about this: a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PRGM button - am I missing something?
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(...) From getopt(3) on BSD and other systems: When all options have been processed (i.e., up to the first non-option argument), getopt() returns -1. However, from the Linux manpage: By default, getopt() permutes the contents of argv as it scans, so (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ben Jackson schrieb: (...) If getopt is working right, the position of switches shouldn't matter. If they do, it's broken. Markus. (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I think you need `dll -p0 foo.lx' and `dll -p1 bar.lx'. That syntax is working fine for me. Right now my battery meter is in slot 0 (fading fast!) and the program I'm debugging is in slot 1. --Ben (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Jeff, Jeff Chrisope schrieb: (...) There could be a problem with getopt in the Windows-libc. Try inserting a printf after the loop dealing with options, to show which program slot dll is actually transmitting to. (...) Hey, aren't you with (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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