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Subject: 
Re: fast firmware downloader
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
Date: 
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 04:14:21 GMT
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Dave Baum wrote:

In article <000801bf2029$7c5d4ae0$0500000a@pro150>, "Ralph Hempel"
<rhempel@bmts.com> wrote:

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


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 covered if someone could supply the necessary
serial port code (there's a single class that implements all serial I/O -
port the class and you're in business).

I'm willing to cover the DOS port since I'm working on a DOS->RCX comm project
already.  I already have my HP LX200 doing minimal comm with the RCX with hopes
of having it ride alongside as a computational component.

-Wes Matchett



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  Re: fast firmware downloader
 
(...) Wes, A good place to start with the porting is to grab the latest NQC source code from www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc and take a look at the family of PSerial classes in the platform directory. Create a new class (e.g. PSerial_dos) that (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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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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