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Re: ROM Firmware size limit? Firmdl bug?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:56:11 GMT
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Kieran Elby <K.E.Elby@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> This works fine for small programs, but for large programs (total size >
> ~20k) firmdl3 throws an "error in srec file on line X" error. Looking at
> the code of firmdl3, there seems to be a define along the lines of
> MAX_IMAGE_SIZE = 0x4c00 (this is from memory - i don't have internet
> access from my PC!). Increasing this value makes the error go away, but
> then the RCX crashes (with a buzzing sound!) when trying to download
> programs.
> I assume this is due to a ROM limitation, but I was kind of hoping that
> maybe someone had found a way around this?
Get the latest version of firmdl and/or the latest version of LegOS.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/tools.html#Firmdl
http://sourceforge.net/projects/legos/
-Kekoa
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 | | Re: ROM Firmware size limit? Firmdl bug?
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| (...) Hmm. Quad speed downloading in Version 3.1 doesn't seem to work under Cygwin on W2K (though single speed does). It always returns either a 'write: permission denied' of 'bad ir link' error (which one it is seems to be random!) , even if the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | ROM Firmware size limit? Firmdl bug?
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| Hi! I'm using legOS 0.2.4 on Cygwin, and since memory is tight, I thought I'd try statically compiling my program to an .srec file, and using firmdl3 to download it, since I can do without the keys,conio,task, and memory managment stuff. This works (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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