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Re: Re: Lego mindstorms and windows 3.11
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Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:04:08 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Rob Limbaugh wrote:
> 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.
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> If the computer has MS DOS on it, then QBASIC is probably there as well. One
> could always use that.
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> 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).
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> 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:
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> > nanobapt wrote:
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> > > Is it possible to program lego mindstorms with windows 3.11 ?
> >
> > Not using the standard Lego software...for sure.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
> >
> > ----------------------------- Steve Baker
> > -------------------------------
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> > URLs : http://www.sjbaker.org
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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 digging and found a recompiled NQC v1.3 for DOS (with source
code!!) that works quite well. The site is in Japanese, but the links are pretty
clear:
http://www.mozzarella.jp/mindstorms/nqcdos/
Its an older version of NQC, but it has the needed nuts and bolts. Now if we
could just get the win32-specific code changed in the new versions.
--Jack
AFOL, GtwLUG (St. Louis)
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