Does MIOS/MIDIBox64 Require Bankstick?

Testing/Troubleshooting
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I’m at the point where I’m testing my MB64 and I have a few questions, including the main one in the title:

  1. I bought my PIC from SmashTV. I believe it has the bootstrap loader burned into it already. There’s a sticker on it stating it

s bootstrap loader v1.1b and has ID 0 etc… from my understand I believe this means I just need to load the MIOS operating system and then load the MB64 program.

  1. A followup to the question above. Do I need to load MIOS v1.8 before loading the MB64 v2.4 application or does the MB64 v2.4 application include everything already?

3 I can’t figure out  if MIOS requires a Bankstick. The whole time I was building my MB64 I was thinking the PIC had all the required memory on board for one program. Can someone please explain or let me know if MIOS/MB64 requires a banksitck?

Thanks in advance.

Brian.

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Hey Brian

  1. I bought my PIC from SmashTV. I believe it has the bootstrap loader burned into it already. There’s a sticker on it stating it

s bootstrap loader v1.1b and has ID 0 etc… from my understand I believe this means I just need to load the MIOS operating system and then load the MB64 program.

… this is correct

  1. A followup to the question above. Do I need to load MIOS v1.8 before loading the MB64 v2.4 application or does the MB64 v2.4 application include everything already?

… yes, you need to load MIOS first

3 I can’t figure out  if MIOS requires a Bankstick. The whole time I was building my MB64 I was thinking the PIC had all the required memory on board for one program. Can someone please explain or let me know if MIOS/MB64 requires a banksitck?

… the PIC has the required memory available. A Bankstick you needonly, if you’d like to switch between different configuration setups (banks)

Greets, Roger

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great. Thanks for the quick response!

Brian