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Re: NQC's future
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics
Date: 
Sat, 3 Apr 2004 02:55:29 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, John Hansen wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, Jack Hawk wrote:
> > Call me kooky, but I'd like to see actual DOS support (ie, non-Win32s specific
> > code) for the serial port. I have an old, trusty Win3.11 laptop that I want to
> > use when taking my RCX out to events, for last minute fiddling. I've found
> > version NQC v1.3 recompiled to work under DOS (with source code), but I'd really
> > like to use some of the newer features of NQC.
> 
> I'm not likely to ever attempt such thing.  Sorry about that.  Maybe someone
> else will.

I probably botched the DOS serial driver, but you could give this build
a try.  (Requires at least a 386)

  http://ldglite.sf.net/nqc30a2d.zip

I had the djgpp version of gcc lying around from a previous DOS project,
so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Don



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(...) Ok, I was right. That one didn't work, so I pasted together some DOS UART code and made a PSerial_dos.cpp file that does seem to work my antique 486 DOS PC. I put a zip file with the DOS nqc.exe, the CWSDPMI.EXE DOS extender, and the source (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)

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(...) I'm not likely to ever attempt such thing. Sorry about that. Maybe someone else will. John Hansen (22 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)

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