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Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:28:39 GMT
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<{rhempel@}SayNoToSpam{bmts.com}>
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Hi All,
I have some questions about alternative firmware support for USB
towers. As the author of pbForth, I'm getting lots of requests
to integrate USB tower support into the package.
The old tower plugged into a seraial port, and for some
MAc users, a USB/Serial interface worked well. Now that
the tower is native USB, what does the driver look like to
a program running on the computer. Is it a serial port
or does it need a special device driver?
I guess I'll need to get a USB tower to test this out
with too :-(
Cheers, Ralph Hempel
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware
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| (...) Seems like it behaves like a file, no special magic needed once you have the device driver installed (under Windows). AFAIR from what I saw in the Lejos code the differences to the old tower are slight, that there's no more need to wake it up (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware
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| (...) Here's where I'm at for NQC... Windows - The Lego driver does a pretty good job of making the tower look like a comm port but with a different name (\\.\LEGOTOWER1), although I believe calls to set the baud rate/parity/etc fail. MacOS 9 - no (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware
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| Hi, AFAIK only the following changes need to be made to a COMM-driver to work with USB (Windows only): First of all the Lego-USB-Driver has to be installed (happens automatically when you install the MindStorms/RIS-software). (In Control Panel the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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