Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, there's only one firmware that can be downloaded to the yellow programmable brick (the RCX). The user may blindly download the firmware without knowing what it was specifically. - Which is probably OK für 95% of the user base.
FYI: It's firm0328.lgo, i.e. LEGO's official firmware version 3.28.
There's other firmware available, see https://pbrick.info/index.html-p=74.html
Not only other official versions (3.09 and 3.32) but also from Dick Swan and alternative firmwares to be used with leJOS, pbFORTH and legOS BrickOS. Probably even others - if we can still find them in the WWW of this MINDSTORMS legacy.
Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to have a selection dialog for the firmware. LEGO's 3.32 official firmware should probably the default so that no background knowledge is required. Choosing another firmware could be an advanced feature which is not directly visible ("expert mode") so that user's can't to something "wrong" (unintended).
Describe alternatives you've considered
Make the firmware files available and let the very advanced user use their web browser development console, add breakpoints to the JavaScript code and manually select the correct firmware from their. Doesn't feel very user-friendly though...
Additional context
Different firmwares are used for different RCX hardware revisions - or different alternative programming languages and their environments (e.g. pbFORTH, BrickOS, etc).
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, there's only one firmware that can be downloaded to the yellow programmable brick (the RCX). The user may blindly download the firmware without knowing what it was specifically. - Which is probably OK für 95% of the user base.
FYI: It's firm0328.lgo, i.e. LEGO's official firmware version 3.28.
There's other firmware available, see https://pbrick.info/index.html-p=74.html
Not only other official versions (3.09 and 3.32) but also from Dick Swan and alternative firmwares to be used with leJOS, pbFORTH and
legOSBrickOS. Probably even others - if we can still find them in the WWW of this MINDSTORMS legacy.Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to have a selection dialog for the firmware. LEGO's 3.32 official firmware should probably the default so that no background knowledge is required. Choosing another firmware could be an advanced feature which is not directly visible ("expert mode") so that user's can't to something "wrong" (unintended).
Describe alternatives you've considered
Make the firmware files available and let the very advanced user use their web browser development console, add breakpoints to the JavaScript code and manually select the correct firmware from their. Doesn't feel very user-friendly though...
Additional context
Different firmwares are used for different RCX hardware revisions - or different alternative programming languages and their environments (e.g. pbFORTH, BrickOS, etc).