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Tiny Arcade & Pocket Arcade / Re: Tiny Arcade boot issues

« on: October 04, 2016, 09:26:01 AM »

I initially had the same problem with an SD card seemingly sending it to the Bootloader screen. I was using a 64 MB (not GB) SD card formatted to FAT16 (perhaps the problem) and I loaded it with Ubuntu 14.04.

After recompiling and re-flashing the Arcade Menu program, the problem appears to have gone away.

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Tiny Arcade & Pocket Arcade / Re: TinyArcade not working at all

« on: October 04, 2016, 09:12:24 AM »

Thanks much for the help, Ben. Things are working again.

Holding down the two buttons on power-on did make the bootloader screen reappear, so you were right: it wasn't bricked.

On Linux 14.04, I'm running Arduino 1.6.12 with the Arduino SAMD boards 1.6.7, newly updated TinyCircuits SAMD 1.0.5, and 1.1.0 of the TinyScreen library.

This time, I was able to compile the revised version of ArcadeMenu. When I power it on and hold the two buttons, the "TinyArcade Bootloader Mode" screen appears and the TinyScreen+ (/dev/ttyACM0 for me) port appears. I'm able to flash the firmware.

The games that were originally there don't seem to be there anymore, but now the SD card works as advertised (i.e., I unzipped the collection, wrote them on a newly formatted SD card, and now I'm able to select and play a game.

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Tiny Arcade & Pocket Arcade / Re: Cannot run program "{runtime.tools.bossac-1.6.1-arduino.path}/bossac"

« on: October 03, 2016, 12:15:28 AM »

I found the same problem under 1.6.12 (the latest). The bossac executable is in the Arduino packages directory (one you've installed the SAMD board package) and appears to run correctly. This must be some sort of "forgot the set the path properly" error.

How are you able to explicitly verify that the bossac executable is in the Arduino packages directory? I've also poked around in some of the .txt config files to no avail. I'm sure we can't be the only people with this issue.

I'm running on a Ubuntu 14.04 box (i.e., Linux)

Off my home directory,

$ find .arduino15 -name "boss*"
.arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/bossac
.arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/bossac/1.6-arduino/bossac
.arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/bossac/1.7.0/bossac

Running the bossac executable in the 1.6-arduino directory,


$ ./bossac -h
Usage: bossac [OPTION...] [FILE]
Basic Open Source SAM-BA Application (BOSSA) Version 1.6-arduino
Flash programmer for Atmel SAM devices.
Copyright (c) 2011-2012 ShumaTech (http://www.shumatech.com)

Examples:
  bossac -e -w -v -b image.bin   # Erase flash, write flash with image.bin,
                                 # verify the write, and set boot from flash
  bossac -r0x10000 image.bin     # Read 64KB from flash and store in image.bin

Options:

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Tiny Arcade & Pocket Arcade / Re: Cannot run program "{runtime.tools.bossac-1.6.1-arduino.path}/bossac"

« on: October 02, 2016, 08:28:44 PM »

I found the same problem under 1.6.12 (the latest). The bossac executable is in the Arduino packages directory (one you've installed the SAMD board package) and appears to run correctly. This must be some sort of "forgot the set the path properly" error.

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Tiny Arcade & Pocket Arcade / Re: TinyArcade not working at all

« on: October 02, 2016, 08:27:08 PM »

I had a similar experience. I bought it at the NY MakerFaire 2016, assembled it, and it was working fine. I copied files onto an SD card and attempted to boot, but got the "Tiny Arcade Bootloader Mode" screen that I couldn't get past. I tried to install the Arcade Menu and after a lot of fighting with the Arduino IDE (e.g., the "cannot find sd.../...h" errors are from an older version of the Arduino IDE; upgrading fixed that problem but left me with the "cannot execute bossac" error for the Tiny+ menu example and countless "could not resolve symbol" errors in the Arcade Menu) finally managed to build a .bin file for the TinyScreenBasicExample and downloaded it by invoking the "bossac" executable (which actually was installed under my .arduino15/packages/arduino directory) directly. It claims it managed to flash the firmware, which I believe, because now it doesn't even appear as a USB device, let alone display anything on the screen.

In short, I bricked it. Help!  Any other way to flash the firmware?