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Subject: 
Re: Downloading Firmware to RCX
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 09:42:37 GMT
Original-From: 
Peter Hesketh <pbh@phesk.demon.co./nospam/uk>
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In article <F4wwLv.DwC@lugnet.com>, Kekoa Proudfoot
<lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes

Does QBasic let you use spirit.ocx?  If so, that is by far the easiest way
to write code to download the firmware.

Unfortunately, Spirit.ocx needs Windows 95.  It will not work with W3.1.
let alone DOS, so QBasic (for DOS applications) cannot use it.

If not, here is an explantion of
the download process:

Thank you very much.  Do you mind if I put your text (below) into the
program as comments?  Or even as a separate explanatory page on my
website?  If you decide that you would like to host such a page, please
let me know so that I can include a link to the URL from my website.

I assume you know the basic packet protocol.

  http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/protocol.html

Step 1: Read in the s-record file
[snip]
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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