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Well, acually I wanted to download the pbForth into the RCX because I was
reading the book EXTREME MINDSTORMS that you wrote with Dave Baum. In the
pbForth chapter I just read trough until I got to the second part. There I
needed to test for myself in order to understand so I tried to download the
pbForth firmware. Then I changed my mind and wanted the old one back. That´s
how I got into this mess. When I got your message I tried to install a
terminal program on the computer. I took the GUI that was on pbForth´s
website. Now I have downloaded all the scriptfiles (you know, wordlist.txt
etc.) and then I did what you said in the book. I wrote "POWER_INIT
POWER_OFF". Just as the book said the screen went blank, but when I pressed
the "ON-OFF" button it didn´t start. What should I do?
In lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, Ralph Hempel writes:
> Henrik,
>
> Don't panic. To make sure that you have actually killed
> the pbForth firmware, you need to take out the batteries
> while it's actually running a program. I've had it showing
> "4th" on the display for over 1 month just on batteries.
> If it's running a program, you can be sure it's not in sleep
> mode...
>
> The other thing is that the batteries may be weak. You might
> try to put in new batteries in the RCX and Tower and see
> if that helps....
>
> Cheers, Ralph Hempel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf
> > Of Henrik
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:14 PM
> > To: lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth@lugnet.com
> > Subject: RCX Crash!
> >
> >
> > I have downloaded the latest version of pbForth and when I
> > downloaded it to
> > the RCX the "4th" appeared on the screen. Later I wanted to go back to the
> > standard RCX 2.0 firmware. I took out the batteries to clear the
> > memory from
> > pbForth, but when I tried to download the original firmware it
> > just said "No
> > response from RCX". Then I tried the command line version of
> > NQC(wich is the
> > program that I used before pbForth). Now it worked to download most of the
> > firmware, but in the end it said "No response from RCX" and the
> > screen went
> > back to normal. What should I do? I really don´t wanna buy a new
> > one. Help!
> >
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| Henrik, Don't panic. To make sure that you have actually killed the pbForth firmware, you need to take out the batteries while it's actually running a program. I've had it showing "4th" on the display for over 1 month just on batteries. If it's (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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