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| (...) I am admittedly biased toward BrickOS; however, I am wondering if you attempted to free some memory in BrickOS by disabling features that you didn't need? If you are only going to run one program (whether single threaded or multi), you can (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: C$ - Code Only
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| (...) NQC compiles not quite C code into LEGO firmware opcodes. You download the .rcx result, and LEGO firmware interprets the program. This makes it slow. QuiteC and brickOS both use H8 native C compilers that spit out H8 assembly code directly. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: C$ - Code Only
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| (...) Forgive a clueless question here, but is QuiteC different than NotQuiteC? If so where can I learn more about it? Thanks! The oldest mention of the term "QuiteC" I could find on LUGNET was only 3 weeks ago but MAYBE I'm searching wrong? see (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: Receiving messages on PC
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| Thanks! As soon as I get a chance, I'll try this out and let you know how it works. -Dave (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: Receiving messages on PC
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| (...) I have just posted MSGMON, a very rough (!!!) WIN32 command-line program that will receive one-byte messages from the RCX using a USB tower. This should get you started, although it will need a lot of work to make this into anything resembling (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Receiving messages on PC
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| Hi, I'm sure this issue has come up before, but I can't find an answer to my exact question in the archives: Are there any utilities that can be used (preferably a Windows command line utility) to receive the messages sent by SendMessage()? Or any (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | MacNQC 4.0b1 Announcement
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| Hi All, I've uploaded MacNQC 4.0b1. New features are: * RCX Simulator. * Added a Memory Map Panel. * Updated NQC to 3.0a1. If you would like to test it, it can be found at (URL) comments, or feature requests for the next version can be sent to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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| (...) Upon further review, it would appear that (at least on my machine and one other that I have heard about) the new release of BricxCC (3.3.7.7) does, in fact, correctly download the brickOS firmware. My previous tests were using an old copy of (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
| | | | | Re: NQC's future
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| (...) Very! I don't expect to use the game data often, but it would be nice to have the option of having it available or not. thanks for the great work! (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
| | | | | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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| (...) Unfortunately, BricxCC is still not downloading the brickOS firmware correctly. I will look into this problem and try to fix it. In the mean time, you can use firmdl3 which works correctly. John Hansen (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
| | | | | BricxCC release 3.3.7.7
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| I've released version 3.3.7.7 of BricxCC today. It adds a Spybot EEPROM tool window. It adds a new configurable watch tool window. It adds a new generic set source value tool window. It adds a hot key (F2) for the pbForth console. The position of (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
| | | | | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
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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)
| | | | | Re: NQC's future
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| "Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:HrB87H.17p1@lugnet.com... (...) future one) for NQC (...) I think your question probably meant "can I use FastTimer in defining events because I want better resolution than is possible with (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
| | | | | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
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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)
| | | | | Re: NQC's future
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| (...) According to the LEGO documentation, only the normal (source 1) Timers can be used as an event source. The ‘sensors’ for which events can be generated are: · Physical sensors (Source 9, Range 0-2, Logical number 0-2) · System timers (Source 1, (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
| | | | | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.6
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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)
| | | | | Re: NQC's future
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| (...) Here's a suggestion/question: is it possible (either in the current incarnation or a future one) for NQC to use FastTimer() as a source for events? Timer() works, but not (it seems) FastTimer(). (21 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
| | | | | Re: ...2 years later... :-) (was: newbie again part 2)
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| Hello, for the benefit of the next guy reading this thread (probably in January 2006 :-) : Dave was right, the *.rcx file I was trying to feed to pbsim wasn't in the current directory. (I didn't notice that my Java environment, jEdit, had set the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: ...2 years later... :-) (was: newbie again part 2)
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| Hello, and thanks for the reply. In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, Dave Baum wrote: . . . (...) That's where I thought it was, but who knows. I'll continue the quest. Thanks again -- as always I am impressed how easy it is on the Net to get to the roots (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: NQC's future
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| (...) ;o) ... but why not ? (...) You're right, I should try pbForth, actually I intend to do that for a while but never jumped in. In the late 80's, I was involved in a point of sales terminal project that was programmed with a preemptive (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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