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(...) Nope, I've written a program to send messages to the RCX (like the send.c program on RCX Internals) for the Amiga side - I can boot into LinuxPPC or AmigaOS - and that works fine. If I can work out the format of the image files nqc generates (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) The format is described in rcxlib/rcxifile.h in the source distribution. (...) Assuming you have a reasonably modern C++ compiler (gcc is ideal), then the port is rarely more complicated than creating a special subclass of the PSerial class (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) Thanks, I'll look at that tonight (didn't really get chance yesterday). (...) Unfortunately the versions of gcc on both my Amiga and Thinkpad (running Mandrake 7.1) bomb when trying to compile nqc: both complain that vector.h - in g++-2 on my (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem
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(...) vectorh.h is part of the C++ standard library. Apparently some systems don't have it installed by default. There was some discussion on this a while back... (URL) think the conclusion was that with ManDrake 7.1 you need to install the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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