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(...) I actually had this exact problem at the Hobby Show. I was in a hurry and didn't want to think about it (all I was doing was tweaking the light sensor thresh), so I just rebooted every time. Chris: I had lots of trouble too, but the final (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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I hate to see questions go unanswered. Steve H replied to me saying it took him 12 hours under these conditions, and now that I have done it I can say it took my P233 laptop a full 24 hours to install brickOS under Paolo's instructions. I'm also sad (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Okay, I'm working on a proc in ASM, and I need help with using MOV to move stuff back and forth between memory and registers. I have the following (very simple) program working, but I can't for the life of me get the MOV to work. I've got the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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HI, preface, I wouldn't know a cygwin from a GCC if it him me in the head. I just want to D/L a .c prg into my RCX I need advice on the process of installing BrickOS on a p233 laptop running W98se. my question is this: What is a reasonable amount (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Looks like a nasty one, hopefully someone can offer some specific help. If you'd prefer to use a more recent gcc you can, I posted some info (URL) here>. My problem seemed to be the version of binutils I had. It may be time consuming, but with (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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(...) You are welcome! I'm glad you were able to get the pre-built tools installed and working. The brickOS root that BricxCC had configured on your system was a result of having a previous installation of BricxCC where I had used that path as the (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi John, Thanks to your pre-built BrickOS tools, I have finally installed it on my Windows 2000 machine (I tried several times in the past... no luck !). The installation was really fast and easy, the only problem I got was that the default BrickOS (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) C++ is more particular with types than regular ol' C. However, I think BrickOS's definition of NULL in mem.h is incorrect (as this was causing one of the problems in the execi call). IMO, it should be defined like so: #ifdef __cplusplus (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) When saved as multi.c, but not when saved as multi.cpp (...) Start multiple tasks within a program that uses objects. I could rewrite a number of parts to use structs instead, but I just wanted to check that there wasn't some easy solution. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Were you able to compile it as is? What are you trying to do? What errors are you getting? I tested that with version xx.09, not the latest one. Steve (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thank you again for the help, but unfortunately it only compiles when saved as a '.c' file. Some of my code depends pretty heavily on classes... is there any easy change to make this work as object oriented code? *just spent two hours trying (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I will make this change. Thanks for the report! John Hansen (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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small suggestion: when you've a syntax error in NQC, it goes like this - error is reported - you correct the error - recompile the source - code is downloaded - error message disappears In my opinion, the last 2 actions should be the other way (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Thank you very much. That was exactly what I needed. Very much appreciated. Mike (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) This works. Steve ---- #include <unistd.h> #include <dbutton.h> #include <dmotor.h> int MotorSpeed = 0; int RunMotor() { while (!shutdown_requested()) { motor_a_dir(MotorSpeed); } return 0; } int CheckButton() { while (!shutdown_requested()) { (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'd go with the flag, myself. (...) Its certainly possible for the client timer to reinsert itself - therefore the recurring timer is not strictly required. It could be left out for space reasons. I'd probably either take it out and make it (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Sorry, I'm still just not getting it at all. I have type errors all over the place trying to pass arguments to my task. Could someone please simply email me or post an example of a program that starts, runs two or more threads, and will (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Brickos fun and games!
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Hello. I have finally got gcc 2.95.3 - the official brickos compiler - installed on my computer (SUSE Linux). I can type "make" and compile all the brickos directory fine. firmdl3 works fine. BUT, dll doesn't seem to work. When I use dll to download (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It would seem reasonable to check the location of the struct; if in kernel memory, don't remove; if in user memory, remove. However, you could add a flag to the timer struct which could use T_KERNEL and T_USER flags. (...) I looked quickly (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You are right. I found in an app that I was using that if I pressed the run / stop button, my task would be killed, and leave a dangling timer - which would usually blow the little brick into the weeds :o) I 'solved' it in a crude way by (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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