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Information about the enhanced firmware and where to download.

This is sort of a wiki-like thread for information about the enhanced firmware, since it is a bit difficult to find information about where to download and which releases are "current".

Since this should hopefully become sticky, please check the most recent posts for up to date information.


Tags (for ease of searching):

• John Hansen's Firmware
  Enhanced Firmware
  Alternate Firmware
  NXC Firmware
  NBC Firmware
  Firmware Download

Current Known Download Locations:

• http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/lms_arm_jch.zip
  http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/lms_arm_nbcnxc.zip
  http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/test_releases/

I saw that, but it there is still only one download directly listed, and the lms_arm_jch.zip download is not listed there at all.

What I think would be good to have here, is also an explanation of what firmware goes with what version of NBC-NXC as well as notification of new firmware releases.

I also only now found the page,
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/firmware.html

But this page only has the instruction to use the test releases, and doesn't mention the files, lms_arm_jch.zip or lms_arm_nbcnxc.zip

So, despite many pages that mention one or two firmware links, there is no explanation for which file is most current since only the test-releases are datemarked. Hence this thread.

well,I think it's quite easy:
always use the latest BCC basic release and then install the latest bugfix on top! (bugfix release date: must be later than basic release!)
Then anything goes and everything is working fine!

(seriously no one is supposed to install an older version than the latest one - unless certain IT specialists which want to debug NXC itself)

I was thinking more for those of us not on windows, using the command line nbc and nexttool; where you have to download the firmware separately.

For example I personally use Xcode with an external build target,
see: http://www.mastincrosbie.com/Marks_LEGO ... _10.5.html