Subject:
|
Re: Looking for OS suggestions
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
|
Date:
|
Fri, 16 May 2003 12:28:09 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
488 times
|
| |
|
|
> I have recently obtained a PII 233 notebook with a 6GB drive I planned
> to use with the RIS 1.5 I just got used <shame><guilt>and still haven't
> opened </guilt></shame>.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!!!!!
OPEN IT UP!!!!!!
NOW!!!!!
no stop reading this. open it NOW!!!!!!
ahh, (sigh) that better. now on to lesson 12 of the RCX.
>
> Any recomendation on the OS to install if this is to be my "Lego
> Deveopment Platform"?
much like I cant tell you what your favorite TV should be I can only
recommend.
that being said. I like 98 SE
you can use any form of NT, XP 2000 or what ever but then you need to do the
research on how to configure your FUTURE purchases of lego video items.
as for the development platform part, any windoze based os will talk nice to
most common languages and GUI's for said language. (I'm prepared to be
corrected)
you also need to find what your favorite language is. C, basic, ASM, raw
byte code, Java, or a few other more obscure ones.
> Still don't know what I will settle on, but I'll
> want to be able to use the Lego software for my son at least to keep it
> simple.
Mmmmm, I don't know your son, or his level of programming. the software
right out of the box is intuitive for kids, but i found it to be "odd"
be aware that any language that acts a "COMPILER" from <insert language here>
to the raw lego byte code will all play nice in the RCX with stock firmware.
so you can program in "C" and have the GUI OEM Lego code for your son and
BOTH of you can program the same brick.
example, build a bot. have your son program it with the lego software, it
works (but cant access many extended features of the brick (i.e.. the display
screen) . then to show of to your kid, you can then ZAP a C version of your
code into the bot and have it access those very same features that the stock
Lego software cant touch.
voila (?), your a new hero to your son.
>
> In this vein, I have heard that the 2.0 version of firmware/software has
> many improvements over 1.5 Can this be done, and how does one obtain it?
the 2.5 can be had here:
http://mindstorms.lego.com/sdk2point5/default.asp
sadly this sight prefers IE as a browser. :(
Chris
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Looking for OS suggestions
|
| I have recently obtained a PII 233 notebook with a 6GB drive I planned to use with the RIS 1.5 I just got used <shame><guilt>and still haven't opened </guilt></shame>. Any recomendation on the OS to install if this is to be my "Lego Deveopment (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
|
6 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
