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Re: Scout vs RIS and reverse engineering and Byte Codes
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:06:59 GMT
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Does the Scout have firmware? I'm not aware of any being downloaded to the
brick.
Mike
Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message
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> > By the way I didn't reverse engineer these codes. They just appeared to • me
> > in a Thanksgiving turkey induced dream.
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> Could you eat more turkey and find the 0x52 opcode that unlocks firmware? • This
> would let us make custom firmware for the Scout.
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> I'm still justifying the need for a Scout :-)
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> Cheers,
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> Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | RE: Scout vs RIS and reverse engineering and Byte Codes
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| (...) I'm just guessing. If it has the upload data opcode, why not unlock firmware? On the RCX, there needed to be a specical code "Do you byte...etc" to allow the firmware to be "unlocked" and executed from 0x8000 hex. Now, the trick was to monitor (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Scout vs RIS and reverse engineering and Byte Codes
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| (...) The Scout must have control programming somewhere. What interests me is that out of 1K of RAM only about 400 bytes is available to hold a user program. Could the control program be held (preloaded) in the remaining 624 bytes of RAM? Robert (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Scout vs RIS and reverse engineering and Byte Codes
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| Mike Kory Wrote: (...) Cool! (...) Could you eat more turkey and find the 0x52 opcode that unlocks firmware? This would let us make custom firmware for the Scout. I'm still justifying the need for a Scout :-) Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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