RCX programmable brick : 588


Robotics / RCX / 588	587 \| 589

Subject:	proposed new word for deleting pbforth
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx
Date:	Tue, 16 May 2000 14:23:57 GMT
Reply-To:	sjm@(StopSpammers)judgement.com
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It would be handy if there was a word that deleted firmware. It is often inconvenient to get at the batteries. At Kekoa I see the opcode but no rom entry point. Trashing the header in memory and jumping to the reset vector might do it. I wonder if anyone has figured this one out. Seems likely. Where do you ask questions like this? robotics.rcx maybe? I guess I should really upload the rom image and disassemble it to see how the opcode does it.

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		RE: proposed new word for deleting pbforth
(...) Kekoa, feel free to jump in here... Personally, I think just jumping to the reset vector 0x0000 should do a total cold start, right? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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		RE: More linux feedback. firmware upload doesn't work for me.
(...) This is wierd. I had it working on my Caldera Linux 2.2 which has TclTk 8.0.4 I'll try again. One of the problems is that I can't seem to get a nice NFS system running here, and I have to FTP the files around... :-( I'll try and make a better (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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