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Re: fast firmware downloader
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
Date: 
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 04:00:34 GMT
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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).

If there was demand for a drag-and-drop (non-MPW) version for the Mac, I
could do that as well, but it sounds like a lower priority than getting
the 4x stuff into the main NQC source base.

As usual, whatever I put together will be MPL.

Dave

--
reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com



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(...) 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 (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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