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    RIS2 Upgrade on W95 & Pentium(I) —Mike McKeever
   Has anyone succeeded in getting the upgrade to work on less-than-minimum-requirement PCs? In their infinite wisdom, LEGO has "upgraded" the minimum platform for the RIS. I'd like to be able to run it on my existing machine. Moving up to W98 is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
   
        RE: RIS2 Upgrade on W95 & Pentium(I) —James Matthews
   Well the concern there is that RIS2.0 uses a USB IR tower - which is not natively supported by W95. If you can get USB working, then you might be alright... HTH, James. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: RIS2 Upgrade on W95 & Pentium(I) —Mike McKeever
    (...) Well, I have a fully functional RIS 1.5 including the serial tower. I got the RIS2 "Upgrade" disk from S@H. It's installer checks for OS and bails when it finds W95. And, of course, the .cab files are password protected, so, none of this (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: RIS2 Upgrade on W95 & Pentium(I) —Trevyn Watson
   Does anyone know what the .cab file format is like? I mean, if the files are "password protected", does that mean they are encrypted? or does it just mean that some programs won't let you in? (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
 

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