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| | | Is there a description anywhere of the RCX firmware download protocol in plain English or in pseudocode? I am trying to write a QBasic program to do it. I have looked at firmdl.txt and dltrace.txt but my knowledge of C is not sufficient to work out (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Downloading Firmware to RCX —Kekoa Proudfoot
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| | | | (...) Does QBasic let you use spirit.ocx? If so, that is by far the easiest way to write code to download the firmware. If not, here is an explantion of the download process: I assume you know the basic packet protocol. If not, it was described by (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloading Firmware to RCX —Peter Hesketh
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| | | | | In article <F4wwLv.DwC@lugnet.com>, Kekoa Proudfoot <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) Unfortunately, Spirit.ocx needs Windows 95. It will not work with W3.1. let alone DOS, so QBasic (for DOS applications) cannot use it. (...) Thank you very (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloading Firmware to RCX —Kekoa Proudfoot
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| | | | | (...) Ooops. Switch most and least, above. (...) And again, twice. -Kekoa (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloading Firmware to RCX —Peter Hesketh
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| | | | | In article <F4wwLv.DwC@lugnet.com>, Kekoa Proudfoot <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes [snip] (...) [snip] Are you sure you have cc and dd the right way round? I have calculated the sumcheck to be &HC278, so your example above should read 75 00 80 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Downloading Firmware to RCX —Peter Hesketh
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| | | | In article <F4wwLv.DwC@lugnet.com>, Kekoa Proudfoot <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) way (...) of (...) [snip excellent description] At long last I have done it! While recovering from an illness I have managed to get it going - thanks for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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