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Re: Re: Lego mindstorms and windows 3.11
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Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:12:19 GMT
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Rob Limbaugh <[rlimbaugh@]spamcake[ureach.com]>
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NQC may work with Windows 3.xx if Win32s is installed. When I figure out where
I put that old 3.xx machine or two, I'll try it out.
If the computer has MS DOS on it, then QBASIC is probably there as well. One
could always use that.
There are several factors that would affect the ability to install the RIS
software--first of which being the OS version check. Vision Command definitely
won't run because USB devices aren't supported under Win3x (that I know of).
If NQC had an option for direct serial port access, then one could dust off an
old 486DX computer. NQC would fit on a boot floppy with room to spare.
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---- On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Steve Baker (sjbaker1@airmail.net) wrote:
> nanobapt wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to program lego mindstorms with windows 3.11 ?
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> Not using the standard Lego software...for sure.
>
> If you have a C/C++ compiler and have reasonable software
> skills, you *might* succeed in porting the OpenSourced NQC
> package to Win3.11. NQC lets you program your Mindstorms system
> in a C-like language. But getting it to work on Win 3.11 might be
> quite difficult.
>
> Also, you'd need Mindstorms 1.0 or 1.5 because the current 2.0
> version uses a UDP connection that isn't supportable under Win 3.11
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> I would say that your chances of succeeding are small.
>
> If you don't want to consider upgrading to a more recent version
> of Windoze, you could perhaps install Linux on your PC. Then NQC
> will run just fine.
>
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Lego mindstorms and windows 3.11
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| (...) There's only one class (PSerial_win.cpp) that has Win32 code in it. If someone wants to write a DOS version of the serial interface class (perhaps named PSerial_dos.cpp), I'll gladly include it in the distributions. Dave (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Re: Lego mindstorms and windows 3.11
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| (...) <way-back machine: on> I'm not sure if its me or NQC, but it didn't like running in DOS even with Win32s installed on an old 3.xx laptop. I even booted from a Win95 boot floppy and it griped about running in DOS mode. However, I did some (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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