NXT Program ideas

[bungeshea]

I was thinking of creating a firmware simulator...

[muntoo]

I was thinking of creating a firmware simulator...

You mean an emulator or bytecode interpreter*?

Related.

* [Mandatory:] Curse Java. Grrr...

[mattallen37]

...Related....

I think that just came out, and is now available for use.

[bungeshea]

I was thinking of creating a firmware simulator...

You mean an emulator or bytecode interpreter*?

Oh no, nothing that complicated. I was just thinking of creating a NXC program that looks and works just like the NBC/NXC firmware, except, maybe I could add a few 'surprises' to it. If you names it ! Startup (thanks Muntoo!) it would automaticly run when you started up your NXT, and if you downloaded a program which stopped it, you would just be back in the normal firmware until you rebooted your NXT. (Cool huh?)

[mattallen37]

So you mean like an NXT menu system, right? You would still use the normal FW for everything, you would just have a custom menu?

[muntoo]

I was just thinking of creating a NXC program that looks and works just like the NBC/NXC firmware, except, maybe I could add a few 'surprises' to it.

I think NXTboy, NXTreme or NXTFreak did something like that once... (It looked pretty awesome.) I'm not entirely sure if it was in NXC, but I think it might have been. You could try contacting them. (I know NXTreme and NXTboy are still on this forum, but I'm not sure whether or not NXTFreak disappeared since the downfall of NXTasy. He might have a blog, though.)

If you names it ! Startup (thanks Muntoo!) it would automaticly run when you started up your NXT, and if you downloaded a program which stopped it, you would just be back in the normal firmware until you rebooted your NXT. (Cool huh?)

You could always add an "exit" option which Stop(1)s the program.

[nxtreme]

I think NXTboy, NXTreme or NXTFreak did something like that once... ...(I know NXTreme and NXTboy are still on this forum, but I'm not sure whether or not NXTFreak disappeared since the downfall of NXTasy. He might have a blog, though.)

Nope, wasn't me. I must say, I'm not much of a programmer, unless it comes to Picaxe BASIC...

[bungeshea]

I think NXTboy, NXTreme or NXTFreak did something like that once... ...(I know NXTreme and NXTboy are still on this forum, but I'm not sure whether or not NXTFreak disappeared since the downfall of NXTasy. He might have a blog, though.)

Nope, wasn't me. I must say, I'm not much of a programmer, unless it comes to Picaxe BASIC...

Yes I did notice that NXT Freak had created a project like that...

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Does anyone know if In can getv a copy of the NXTtext NXC project made by NXT Freak? I think it went down with the NXTasy forums.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=356130

http://nxtism.blogspot.com/2009/08/nxtext-nxc-v301.html

Nope, but he is on youtube so it might be worth contacting him to see if he still has a copy - http://www.youtube.com/user/NXTFreak

[bungeshea]

If you named it ! Startup (thanks Muntoo!) it would automaticly run when you started up your NXT, and if you downloaded a program which stopped it, you would just be back in the normal firmware until you rebooted your NXT. (Cool huh?)

You could always add an "exit" option which Stop(1)s the program.

I could, but I want it to seem real, so maybe PowerDown() would be better.

[muntoo]

Yes I did notice that NXT Freak had created a project like that...

You weren't able to get a hold of him... were you?