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Unfortunately, you may have to. There doesn't seem to be a place to download it and the cd doesn't seem to copy. I've tried to back mine up in case my 2 year old gets a hold of it, but I've had no luck so far : ( -JSM (...) (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello all I just got a minstorms set and the 2.0 software cd has a big crack in it. Is there any place that I can download the software? I have already called LEGO for a replacement cd. But I just hate to have to wait a week to get to use the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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On Tue, April 5, 2005 1:46 pm, David VinZant said: (...) I don't think you can download it, but if you really want to dive in, you could download NQC, and BricxCC (URL) (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah, but will tha tbe enough.. isn't the firmware on the CD too? Although the fimrware is a small file, I'm sure he could find someone to email him 2.0 RCX firmware.. or is that available on the LEGO site? (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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On Tue, April 5, 2005 4:05 pm, lego-robotics@crynwr.com said: (...) The web page for BricxCC says: "You do NOT need to have spirit.ocx registered on your machine to run BricxCC" And, version 2.0 of the lego firmware can be found in this file: (URL) (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Actually, it just needs the firmware which can be downloaded from the mindstorms website: (URL) you are referring to is spirit.ocx which is not needed, but if you want a compatible one, you can download phantom: (URL) (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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news-gateway@lugnet.com wrote on 04/05/2005 02:56:37 PM: (...) it. Is (...) the (...) required the Mindstorms software to be loaded, in order to use certain Minstorm DLL's to communicate with the RCX via USB tower? I know under Linux it does not, (...) (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No it is not incorrect. You do have to install the USB tower drivers in order for NQC and BricxCC to use the USB tower to talk to the brick. That is not the case for the Serial tower. You can get the tower drivers (along with the firmware) by (...) (19 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When you say USB tower, do you mean the IR transmitter which you use to ransfer your program to the RCX? I have RIS v 1.5, will the drivers above work with that version as well? -Elf- (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The IR transceiver that comes with RIS 1.5 is a serial one, so it does not need drivers. William. (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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