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Sorry, I don't know if it will run on your system. I only installed it on one machine and hardly use it at all. Dave Baum (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'd suggest not worrying about your system being underpowered. If you've ever programmed before you'll probably want to drop the Lego GUI development environment ASAP and switch to something more powerfull. A first step is to try out NQC which your (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thank you for the answer, but: Do you have any idea whether my system (366 Mhz PII notebook, 64 MB RAM, but only 2.5 MB Video RAM - where LEGO states 4 MB as necessary) could run the original LEGO 2.0 software? Dirk Schlei (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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The 2.0 firmware is available separately from LEGO as part of the 2.0 SDK. You can use this firmware with a 1.5 set (or even a 1.0 set). If you are not planning on using the Lego software then the only difference between 2.0 and 1.5 is that 2.0 has (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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A more important consideration is whether USB or Serial is more convenient on your notebook. 1.5 comes with a COM port interface, and the 2.0 comes with a USB interface. USB is a lot better, if you have it. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I am going to buy the RIS 2.0, but I am not quite sure if I should better buy the RIS 1.5. That is, because my notebook (366 Mhz PII, 64 MB RAM, but only 2.5 MB Video RAM) does not fully meet the minimum requirements as stated by LEGO (what is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I've released BricxCC version 3.3.4.4. It fixes a timeout problem when trying to find the Cybermaster brick (although not all users experienced this problem). It also fixes some problems on the Color tab of the Preferences dialog. It fixes the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Version 1.6 of NQCEdit is now released. This program is a front-end IDE for the NQC command line compiler that offers syntax coloring. NQCEdit is able to do most of the things that NQC is capable of: - Compile program for all targets - Download (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) It looks like the "slowness on shutdown" that I was experiencing when I closed BricxCC while multiple editor windows were open was causing access violations on your machine. What was happening was the code explorer would kick off a thread to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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hi John, getting the latest video driver (Geforce 2MX, driver DetonatorXP v23.11) didn't help :-(, but .... you're new version 3.3.3.9 DID help :-) So thanks again ! I can't see any relevant changes from your "enhancements" list, but maybe you (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I've released another version of BricxCC (3.3.3.9). In this release: 1) Fixes to Cybermaster-specific items on the Watch window and graph 2) Fixed slow shutdown caused by Code Explorer 3) Added hints on Code Explorer preferences dialog to help (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I'm afraid this may have something to do with Win98 and ImageLists. It sounds like it might be a video driver bug as well. Make sure you have the very latest driver for your video card. I'm debating about going back to using bitmaps rather (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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hi John, >>To day I had an even stranger experiences: > 5. Use Explorer to search your computer for *.dsk files and delete any that > are obviously NQC-related (they will have the same file name as your .NQC > files except with the .DSK extension). (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Try this. 1. Delete the BricxCC key from the Registry (HKCU/Software/BricxCC). 2. Run BricxCC and bring up the Preferences dialog. 3. Make sure the "Autosave Options/Project Desktop" checkbox is NOT checked. 4. Close BricxCC. 5. Use Explorer (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi! I am a new member of your community, and i would like to ask the following question. Please excuse me if something similar has been already posted in the past, but i performed a seach in the previous posts and i did not found any answer to my (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Lego's usage of the terms'local' and 'global' is a little different than what most people expect. In the RCX, global storage is available across all tasks while local storage is avaialble per task. This is different from the more traditional (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Remember that the RCX has no stack or heap. This means that, effectively, there is no memory pool from which to allocate things. Here, 'local' means belonging to the current task not the current function, and the number of tasks is fixed (at (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi John, (...) Yes ! Using more tasks you will get more local space (for each task 16). So maximum number of variables is 32+(16*10) = 192 (...) That's how NQC is handling memory for local variables in functions, subroutines, tasks. Local has a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) this (...) only (...) variables (...) the (...) From my understanding of NQC, the compiler automatically selects the most suitable location to store variables. Global variables are obviously always allocated in one of the 32 global storage (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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When using the RCX2 target, the NQC manual (Section 2.2.4) states that 32 global variables, and 16 local variables (per task) are allowed. Does this mean that the whole program can only have 48 variables total when using only one task, ie. "main" , (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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