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(...) Matthew, Thanks for your patch for NQC. I will look at adding this to the official sourcecode and creating a new official release. John Hansen (15 years ago, 17-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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For those interested, I have posted a patch to SourceForge for NQC at (URL) . This patch includes several changes, most of which are related to Linux, though portions may be of use to other platforms. * Removed the dependency of (...) (15 years ago, 11-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Greetings, This is a follow up to earlier postings discussing the development status of BrickOS. While the Sourceforge project has not had much activity of late, I've come across various modifications that, unfortunately, have never made it (...) (15 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I finally got around to uploading all the BricxCC and NBC/NXC source code to an SVN repository on the BricxCC project page on sourceforge.net. Now all my code changes are done via my local checkout from that repository and changes are checked in as (...) (15 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) What I said had less to do with programming as it had to do with understanding your new Linux-based PC. Do you know how to use Linux from a command prompt? Can you open a terminal window on your eeePC and type "gcc" and see what happens? I (...) (15 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Um... I'm sorry, planes flying overhead. :) I literally am on the cusp of understanding programming; I just learned what an array was at our last rtl event. :) -Iain (15 years ago, 2-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I think we need to stick with 2.16.1, I don't know whether porting brickos to elf is really worth the trouble. Newer gcc versions would be nice, indeed, and brickos also builds fine with (some of?) these, but I never actually got it to run on (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, This is great to see there's still some interest. I may not have opportunity to post over the next couple days, but I have created some patches against the latest Sourceforge CVS (as I believe there are a few differences between the CVS and (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) From what I can tell, support for h8300-hitachi-hms(/coff) was dropped from binutils after 2.16.1. I have no real idea how much work it would take to port brickOS (plus brickemu, preferably) over to elf, but I suspect that it'd be a lot. (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I don't know for certain but I would be a bit surprised if Robolab works with the Spybot bricks. There would have to have been a new release with modifications specifically made to support the Spybot. Searching these newsgroups suggests that (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: NQC for Linux/ASUS eeePC
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(...) Normally people build NQC from sourcecode for Linux platforms so there has not been a binary release for Linux in the past. Does the eeePC include all the standard GNU development tools such as yacc, flex, and GCC? If it does then you can (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Michael, Carl, (...) I'm encouraged by your efforts Carl and I don't have time to do the gcc work so Michael, I'd like to take you up on your offer. I do have two of the RCX bricks and a number of USB/IR towers and Linux machines. Carl, I've limited (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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[...] (...) That's great news so far :-) Some time ago, however, I've tried to get brickOS to run on those old h8300 bricks, but it only seemed to work when using an old tool-chain (which is also the reason why the related packages never got (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) No language war intended, but for now I'd rather use Robolab. That said, if I change my mind I'd appreciate some tips on using MacNQC with Spybotics. Most of the stuff that I've seen on the web talks about using the regular RCX stuff. One of (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) I don't know if RoboLab will work with Spybotics, but if you have prior programming experience NQC may be a better option. It works great with Spybotics. Jetro (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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Does anyone have any experience using Robolab with a Spybotics kit? I just got a couple of old Spybotics kits for my son this past Christmas and would love to program them with him using Robolab. I have lots of programming experience, although I am (...) (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) Hi Jetro, No, the eeePC runs Linux, with a custom-designed interface over top by ASUS. So, I was wondering if NQC is available for Linux. -Iain (15 years ago, 26-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Hi Stephen, 2*Michael and others, I've (finally) started playing around with brickOS again. My RCX and almost all of my Lego is in storage a long long way from here, but that may actually be a good thing in this context. I've applied Jochen's (...) (15 years ago, 25-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Is it Windows based? If so, have you tried installing BricxCC? Jetro (15 years ago, 25-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi all, I have an ASUS eeePC, and was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get NQC onto it so I could program my RCX with it? Thanks! -Iain (15 years ago, 25-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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