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  BricxCC & downloading NQC programs failing
 
I have heard from a user of BricxCC who has been experiencing the "compile failed: no (or bad) reply from RCX" (or words to that effect) error message when trying to download pretty much any NQC program either using BricxCC or using NQC directly (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
 
  Re: BricxCC & downloading NQC programs failing
 
Hi, (...) do you have any idea what the write timeout does and is needed for? I'm wondering whether I would need that in the Linux driver, currently I only have the other two. Jürgen (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
 
  Re: BricxCC & downloading NQC programs failing
 
Hi John and all the other members, yes, we got exactly this error in our teachers workshop today. We wrote a few programs on PCs with Windows98. Therefore we used Bricxcc 3.3.7.7 and usb towers. And we got the error you wrote about. The programs (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
 
  Re: BricxCC & downloading NQC programs failing
 
(...) You should look at the LEGO USB Tower control panel Applet. On the Advanced tab there are fields where you can change these timeout values. John Hansen (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
 
  Re: BricxCC & downloading NQC programs failing
 
(...) See that is what makes Lugnet such a great resource! I finally decided to try out Bricxcc/NQC (after using BrickOS on Linux) and it worked fine when I was just downloading short "Hello World" programs, but I pretty soon ran into this problem (...) (20 years ago, 30-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
 
  Re: BricxCC & downloading NQC programs failing
 
(...) [snip, adjust timeouts] (...) I'm getting the same error with my Scout and Bricxcc/NQC for downloading programs, the direct control works fine. I found that having fresh batteries helped in getting programs to download successfully. I'll try (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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