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    Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Jochen Hoenicke
   Hello, 2009/3/31 Carl Troein <carl@thep.lu.se>: (...) For some unknown reason the address suddenly pointed to the old server again which was shutdown in December last year. I noticed it myself only by chance. It seems that the dyndns record has (...) (16 years ago, 31-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
   
        Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     Hi, (...) I had worked to assimilate those patches prior to the second version of the performance patch being posted, so I'm glad to hear that it also works well. (...) When I went back through to add TCP support to other things, that "similar but (...) (16 years ago, 4-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Tom Tuddenham
      Hi all Lately I've noticed a lot of old-school Lego Mindstorm resources are starting to disappear from teh webz. I've blagged about wanting to preserve this stuff here: (URL) the-brick If anyone knows of any resources you think should be maintained (...) (16 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
     
          Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Joe Bradley
      After surfing through many sites, and (sadly) even more 404s I have been unable to find a definitive list of gcc, binutils, BrickOS etc. versions and patches that I should and could be using. Presumably everybody here has up to date versions of all (...) (16 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
     
          Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Matthew Sheets
      (...) Nice to see a few of us share the interest. :-) The best I can offer for a list of patches is what I listed in the post here [ (URL) ], along with Carl's follow-up post. That list was culled from links I've collected over the years. As was (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
     
          Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Joe Bradley
       A very useful site is the cs university page here: (URL) of useful tutorials and instructions. It would be unhelpful to have it disappear. All of the stuff at the legos/brickos sourceforge pages, however a backup probably isn't needed of these. A (...) (16 years ago, 18-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
      
           Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Matthew Sheets
       (...) (URL) . Unfortunately (at least from a code merge perspective), their "version 1.2" is based on BrickOS 0.2.5. The lnp_printf functionality has been adapted and included in the recently-posted rollup patches, but incorporating other (...) (16 years ago, 19-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
      
           Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Joe Bradley
       (...) specific patches from the Bibo set. However the symptoms are identical under BrickOS so I assume they would be linked to the same patches there. Patch 10: Under Ubuntu with the usb tower, this causes firmdl3 to exit with error "read: resource (...) (16 years ago, 20-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
      
           Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Matthew Sheets
        Patch 10: This works for me under Cygwin with a USB tower, but some of the files such as rcx_comm.c have a bit of platform-specific code. Patch 11: I've noticed that the linker command file is a little different in Bibo than it was in BrickOS. If (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
      
           Re: Preserving old-school Mindstorms resources —Tom Tuddenham
       Hey folks I've created a very basic site here: (URL) I say very basic I mean VERY basic.. it's just an empty instance of mediawiki, but I'll look to adding content when I get a chance. Any help appreciated. Cheers Tom (...) (16 years ago, 9-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
     
          Simple Lego traffic light —Tom Tuddenham
      After all the amazing post across lugnet the past few weeks, it feels a bit lame putting this one up: (URL) guess once it's running up on an RCX it'll be a bit more interesting. On the topic of RCX - and the whole old-school Mindstorms preservation (...) (16 years ago, 30-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     Now for Bibo.... I have merged these patch rollup collections with Bibo (where appropriate) and have posted the resulting diff files to (URL) of this follows the pattern of the previous patch rollup collection for BrickOS, with the following notes: (...) (16 years ago, 19-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     I have updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) primary changes are in Patch 11, which provides DCC support, and the key change in that patch was the modification of some assembly code that performed motor controller (...) (16 years ago, 22-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     I have again updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) big change this time is the consolidation of the code bases of util/firmdl and util/dll-src. Working with all the similar-but-different code was getting a bit (...) (16 years ago, 12-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     I've again updated the Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) update adds two new patches--18 and 19. 18: For the host utilities, this patch attempts to standardize the command line arguments and their processing. There is also (...) (16 years ago, 16-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Carl Troein
     (...) I've been meaning to contribute more, but all too rare are the moments when my kids are asleep and a decent chunk of my brain is not. But anyway: I've fixed one little bug that stopped rcx_comm.c from compiling on Linux, plus some warnings and (...) (16 years ago, 17-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) has been updated. This update adds a handful of patch files--20 through 24. 20: Nice group of Linux error/warning fixes from Carl and posted to SourceForge at (URL) Thanks, Carl! 21: (...) (16 years ago, 24-May-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 25 through 35. 25: Cleanup in the util subdirectory - Updated lnpmsg to more cleanly handle and process command-line arguments - Removed in (...) (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 36 through 39. 36: RCX tty config file - Extends patch 32 so that /etc/rcx/device.conf will also be checked for a default tty. The (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. There is just one minor Bibo-specific update this time, patch 40. 40: H8/300 TOOLPREFIX - This patch comes from Debian, where "h8300-hitachi-coff-" is added to the list of (...) (15 years ago, 7-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 41 and 42. 41: Makefiles and the Esterel Synchronous Programming Language - The makefiles were updated to support building Esterel source (...) (15 years ago, 14-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
     The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 43 and 44 43: Per the report from SourceForge user bollinge, Cygwin no longer has a problem building printf.c. A Cygwin-specific (...) (13 years ago, 15-Nov-11, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Carl Troein
     (...) Excellent, Matthew. Many thanks for keeping the project alive and moving forward. I've uploaded a little patch with the edge counting (which I needed once upon a time when I tried to build a plotter without any rotation sensors) re-implemented (...) (13 years ago, 17-May-12, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
   
        Re: BrickOS Patches and Development —Matthew Sheets
    (...) I have found the following related to the removal of h8300-*-hms from binutils: 1) (3 URLs) current Debian version of binutils-h8300-hms is 2.16.1-8 - (URL) the package page ( (URL) ), there is a downloadable *.diff.gz file. That diff file, (...) (16 years ago, 5-Apr-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 

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