> My hero arrived last night. I have the expansion board and will be installing
> it this week....along with the BASIC rom and automode rom. Are there any demo
> functions I can execute so I can play a little before I start programming?
>
> Thanks,
> -tom

Hello Tom,

I have some software for the HERO robots in electronic form. From your post
it looks like you have a HERO 1 robot. That robot is normally programmed in
6800 machine code, a special interpeted 6800 Robot Language that uses unused
6800 op-codes as special robot commands, BASIC (with the optional ROM), and
some use Dave Dunfield's 'C' compiler to generate code. There is also the
Utility/DEMO ROM, and the AutoMode ROM for the HERO 1. I have some BASIC
programs for the HERO 1 which i've gathered over the years.

When installing the Memory expansion board you need to remove any option
ROM installed on the Main CPU board. The AutoMode ROM is usually installed
in the first socket on the memory expansion board. To run it from there
just type: A D 1000 and it should start to run. If it was installed in
the second socket or on the CPU board then you would run it with A D 2000

It is really important to make sure the option socket on the CPU board
remains empty since it's memory locations overlap those on the Memory
expansion board.

Did you get documentation with your HERO? If you have the technical
manual you will want to enter the short programs that test each one
of the sensors. It would probably be better to check it out and work
out any bugs in it before trying to add any upgrades.

Regards,

Robert