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RE: fast firmware downloader
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
Date: 
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 03:15:14 GMT
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If there's interest in a stand-alone firmware downloader running on the
Mac, please let me know.  I can certainly add the approriate quad-speed
stuff into NQC, and can also make a stand-alone version if Mac users are
using pbFORTH or something else like that and want faster firmware
downloads.

Count me in. I'm ditching the Tcl interface - it's just too damn goofy!

A standard firmware downloader would be great - especially if it ran on
all platforms. As far As I know, Dave Baum is the only guy here who
has got a downloader for the Mac!

If a stripped down loader was available for:

DOS
WIN3.1
WIN9x
WIN2K
Linux
Solaris
Mac PPC
Mac 68K

We'd have all of the bases covered (for pbForth anyways). To make it
easier, maybe Dave could publish the source and others could do the ports to
their favorite machine or OS?

Then Dave could get back any source mods and adjust the sources until we
could build from (almost) common source. I've got lotsa experience with
multi-platform embedded systems and would be willing to help with the
makefiles...

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at:
<http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbFORTH>
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Reply to:      rhempel at bmts dot com
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  Re: fast firmware downloader
 
(...) I'll start by pulling the 4x code into the NQC source base. That should make it trivial to build a stand-alone command line based downloader for Win32 (95/nt/98), Linux, Solaris, and Mac 68k/ppc under MPW. We could also get Win3.1 and DOS (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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  Re: fast firmware downloader
 
(...) If there's interest in a stand-alone firmware downloader running on the Mac, please let me know. I can certainly add the approriate quad-speed stuff into NQC, and can also make a stand-alone version if Mac users are using pbFORTH or something (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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