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Re: BrickOS on Mac OS X (restarted ?)
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Date: 
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:04:15 GMT
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:34:15 GMT
"J. Serot" <jocelyn Dot serot AT free dot fr> wrote:
> 
> I've downloaded M. Zapp's port of the GCC cross-compiler and tools,
> have successfuly compiled the firmware and examples but am unable to
> download the firmware on my RCX (even using the last version of
> libusb).
> 
> For the moment i'm programming my RCX with MacNQC but i'd like to have
> a true preemptive multi-tasking kernel on the brick (i'm teaching
> reactive and real-time system programming..).


It seems like MacNQC can be used to download a new firmware on the RCX:

http://www.eng.iastate.edu/twt/extra/downloads/macnqc.htm#Placing%20Firmware%20on%20a%20Computer


If you didn't, you should give it a try. I also had problems downloading
firmwares to the RCX through the USB tower with many utilities. Only NQC
did it right.

Please note that I have no experience with MacOS (I only used GNU/Linux
on an x86 box) but that my problems were quite similar.


Hope this helps.

--
Benjamin Sigonneau



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  BrickOS on Mac OS X (restarted ?)
 
11 months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup dealing with the implementation of BrickOS on Mac OS X. I was just wondering whether the situation had changed since then. I've downloaded M. Zapp's port of the GCC cross-compiler and tools, have (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)  

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