 | | Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware —Ralph Hempel
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | | | | Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware —Juergen Stuber
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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)
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| | | | | Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware —Dave Baum
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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)
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| | | | | Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware —Alexander Cech
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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