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(...) Rafe, I suggest looking on eBay for an old laptop. By old, I'm talking P100MHz w/ 32-64MB RAM; NQC doesn't require a lot of horse-power (I'm not sure about Bricxcc). For USB, you'll need something capable of running Win98 (P66MHz w/ 32MB (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi all, (This is my first post in these groups so please redirect me if this is not the right group.) I do some minor dabbling with the RCX --- simple programs operating simple machines. I program in NQC via bricxcc on Windows XP with a USB IR (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I've just uploaded a .tgz containing a Mac OSX version of NQC (provided by Rob Bates, the MacNQC developer). You can get it from the NQC website: (URL) also have replaced (again) the source code .tgz. It should work as well as the previous (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi John, (...) YES, this version compiles fine under my Linux system with gcc 3.3.3. You do a real great job, thank you for all your work! Regards, Michael (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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And that was the fix. Thanks for maintaining this code! (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) It turns out one of the steps in the process I used to generate the .tgz source code archive not only got the wrong version from CVS but it changed all my unix-style line endings back to windows-style line endings. I've replaced the latest (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I'm apparently very confused. I could have sworn I checked the code here and there wasn't a "private:" before the class Chunk definition starting at line 81. But after double checking just now indeed there is one there. That's what had me (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Ahh...I shouldn't add comments to anything before my first green tea of the morning. I moved line 56 back to public: and went to line 81 and found private: was already there... 81 private: 82 class Chunk 83 { 84 public: 85 86 const UByte* GetData() (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I was not sufficiently clear. My apologies. Line 56 needs to remain unchanged: public: Comments, by the way, in C++ are specified by '//' rather than '#'. I say that because it looks like your compiler is complaining about a line (56) that (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Making progress: I changed the public: to private: in RCX_Image.h and here was the output after I did a `make clean`: [root@aluminum nqc-3.1.r1]# make g++ -o bin/mkdata -Inqc/ -Iplatform/ mkdata/mkdata.cpp nqc/SRecord.cpp bin/mkdata (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Can you try adding "private:" directly above the declaration of the nested type Chunk in RCX_Image.h? I'd like to confirm that that change fixes the problem. If any more compile errors (or warnings) show up let me know here or via email. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi John! Thanks for the new release. On my Linux box I get a compile error. uname -a: Linux aluminum 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 24 14:20:06 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [root@aluminum nqc-3.1.r1]# make g++ -o bin/mkdata -Inqc/ (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I've released a new version of NQC today (3.1r1). (URL) would be most grateful if a few non-Windows platform folks could download the source release and make sure it builds and functions correctly on your favorite platform. I *think* I fixed all the (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Heloooooooo? (Well, never mind I guess. Went back to the old firmware anyway 'coz this new one doesn't work.) Iain (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hey Guys, Any ideas on that code, regarding that error no. 5? Iain (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) No no, don't be. It's my own stupidity/ignorance in progrmaming terms. I'm slowly learning. (...) Good stuff, John. Thank you for your work on this, it's unbeliveable. I got it to do what I need. Now, the only problem is it doesn't seem to (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi Everybody, I have used SendSpybotMsg and SendSpybotCtrlMessage (of course in connection with resopective set messages) without any problems using BCC 3.3.7.5 and 3.3.7.9. These two commands gives RCX a nice control over spybot. Specially (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Application Programming Interface (URL) Oh my god. I'm completly lost :( Sorry. (...) I'm not sure what you are confused about. The API defines a series of values and functions which you can use in your NQC programs. The three lines above show (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Um. I have no idea what an API is :-/ (...) Oh my god. I'm completly lost :( (...) Whaaa?? (...) When I copy/paste that into BricxCC, I get an when I hit the Compile/download button: Undefined function: "SetUserDisplay"...?? I think I'm going (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Having downloaded a copy of swan_test.zip which contains the latest test release of BricxCC and NQC you can use nearly all the new and enhanced features in the Swan firmware. You can view the "official" API built into NQC by executing the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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