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Warning: No CyberMaster in Macs
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:39:30 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <[lau@]Spamless[mail.telepac.pt]>
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I've been reading some posts regarding Mac problems and I noticed that no one ever referred to CyberMaster problems in Mac (which is a good thing).
Unfortunately people with Macs are _destined_ to not be able to use their CyberMaster, since it's not supported at the hardware level.
It's simple: CyberMaster needs two handshake lines in the serial port to be able to download programs, and Mac only supports one.
We should thank Dave Baum that found this while building support to CyberMaster in NQCC.
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Thinking about this, that's probably another reason why LEGO have decided to launch CyberMaster in Europe and not in the States. Because there are a lot more Macs in the States than in Europe (and more potential costumers that would never buy it).
...And that's also another reason to build the Spirit.OCX for Windows machines.
(oh oh, I think I'll be flamed for this one)
Laurentino Martins
[lau@mail.telepac.pt]
[http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]
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 | | Re: Warning: No CyberMaster in Macs
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| (...) CyberMaster, since it's not supported at the hardware level. (...) be able to download programs, and Mac only supports one. Well, this is not entirely true. You can't make a Mac work with CyberMaster without some additional hardware, but you (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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