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Re: pBricks & W2K?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:48:23 GMT
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You must not have had QuickTime 4 installed previously.
The RIS software forces install of QT2 and 3 (pretty damned archaic if
you ask me) and if you already have 4 installed, which huge numbers of
people do now, yer up the crick. As I mentioned before though, I quite
quickly found numerous ways around this.
I sent a very long email to Lego trying to get them to explain their
reasoning behind a) using something like QT to write an app like this in
the first place and b) writing it so it relies on not one but 2 out of
date versions of a technology.
Lego doesn't take criticism very well at all. I love the products, but
having dealt with their support a bit over the past few weeks, I'm
extremely unimpressed with the attitude of the actual corporation.
Peter A. Vogel wrote:
> I had *no* trouble installing RIS 1.5 on my Win2K system, and it runs pretty
> well, most
> of the time. But then, I don't program in RIS myself, only use it to answer
> questions for
> people doing FLL and using the RIS programming environment.
>
> -Peter
> Coach, FLL Team #1096: The Unibots
> "Ben Carter" <geckois@home.com> wrote in message
> news:3A3E4DC8.5090006@home.com...
>
> > No, it won't, here's what I did:
> > Install the software, it will probably crap out on parts of the
> > QuickTime 2 & 3 installation, continue thru everything to the end.
> > Don't bother trying to run the installed software, it won't, but the key
> > components you need to program the rcx will have been installed. (the
> > firmware will be on your HD, the drivers for the IF tower will have been
> > installed, and the OCX for programming the RCX directly will have been
> > installed.
> >
> > Now, you will need a third party tool to program your RCX. I've listed 2
> > below:
> >
> > BrickCommand can be downloaded at
> > http://www.geocities.com/area51/nebula/8488/lego.html
> > RCX Command Center can be downloaded at http://www.cs.uu.nl/~markov/lego/
> > (Link appears to be down at the moment...)
> >
> > From either of these apps, you can download the firmware to your RCX to
> > begin programming.
> > Both of these apps let you write programs and download them to your RCX.
> > Both have lots of tools to help you along as well. Yes, it is a little
> > bit more complicated than using the drag-drop programming model Lego
> > supplies, but in trade you get access to alot more functionality.
> >
> > Hope this helps get you going!
> >
> >
> > Matthew Fisher wrote:
> >
> > > Can Lego's RIS 1.5 included software run on Windows2000?
> > >
> > >
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| I had *no* trouble installing RIS 1.5 on my Win2K system, and it runs pretty well, most of the time. But then, I don't program in RIS myself, only use it to answer questions for people doing FLL and using the RIS programming environment. -Peter (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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