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> NQC ...
> I'd also like to ask for help from ... Linux ...
By the way, people who have a CD-booting Windows-compatible PC have free Linux
too, via a boot CD that works without repartitioning (or even writing) the boot
HDD:
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/11/20/knoppix.html
http://members.aol.com/plscsi/tools/knoppix/
Indeed I think I specifically remember seeing rcx serial port tools work there,
though I'm not utterly sure.
> NQC ...
> I'd also like to ask for help from someone in the Mac world who would be
> willing to build new releases for the Mac and, likewise, from someone in the
> Linux world. If you'd like to volunteer, send me an e-mail.
Hi, me, I have only Mac at home and mostly Linux at work.
On my own I feel I'm not remembering to find enough time to play with our
painfully-expensive RCX, so yes the community here could help by e-mailing me:
p.lavarre@ieee.org
http://members.aol.com/ppaatt/
Please do feel free to ask me to try well-explained things in Mac/ Linux/ Win
XP, at least if in fact noone more easily usable consistently volunteers.
Personally as yet I visit here, I do not subscribe, I don't have e-mail clients
configured to cope well with much incoming e-mail. NQC intrigues me in part
because once upon a time I was a 1989 std. C compiler language lawyer.
With RCX, I've gotten no farther along than reading K~'s disassembly of standard
serial port firmware and writing my own cli javax.comm remote control:
ftp://members.aol.com/plforth/console/rcx/
I remember I was hoping to learn to play sheet music out thru the rcx, but
reviewing that project with a musician in real life overwhelmed me with the gui
seemingly required, since as yet I have near zero gui design experience.
I haven't yet upgraded our 1.1 rcx to usb from serial. I guess I need to do
that. I suppose google near here will tell me how for less than about US$30.
Pat LaVarre
P.S. The megabytes of my (silent, and aesthetically challenged) movie of my
child's reproduction of Ferrari et. al drum-playing rcx appears at:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/katetheauthor/
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