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Re: Connecting to RCX
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
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Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:16:53 GMT
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Steve Kersley wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Does the RCX have the firmware installed?
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> It should! It certainly did last time I used it but I wasn't sure whether
> being without batteries would cause the firmware to need reloading. It
> certainly powers on and runs programs in all slots which suggested to me that
> the firmware was present and working...
The RCX has, by ROM Firmware, 5 factory entered programs. In all 5 slots. The
easy way to tell if there is firmware installed is when you turn it on you see
00.00| |= little man.
Without firm ware all you see is |
Dean
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| (...) Ooh, good point. I was assuming that the programs he was running were programs for the robot with which he was testing, and that he could tell that they were the right ones. Not a very good assumption, actually. (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) It should! It certainly did last time I used it but I wasn't sure whether being without batteries would cause the firmware to need reloading. It certainly powers on and runs programs in all slots which suggested to me that the firmware was (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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