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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.

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 ?

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

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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<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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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 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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