Older RCX and Linux - help please

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Older RCX and Linux - help please Deep Reset 03-21-2008
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Posted by Deep Reset on March 21, 2008, 12:01 pm
I have an RCX 1.0 brick and a 9-pin serial IR tower.

I'd like to use C and if possible leave the brick firmware as it is, but I
can't find NQC for Linux anymore.
If I can't use Linux, I'd have to use a USB / serial adapter on a Windoze
Vista machine - does anyone know if this is feasible, please?

TIA

Deep.


Posted by Marco van der Slot on April 26, 2008, 2:18 pm
>I have an RCX 1.0 brick and a 9-pin serial IR tower.
>I'd like to use C and if possible leave the brick firmware as it is, but I
>can't find NQC for Linux anymore.
>If I can't use Linux, I'd have to use a USB / serial adapter on a Windoze
>Vista machine - does anyone know if this is feasible, please?
>TIA
>Deep.

The USB driver worls on Vista (32 bit, not 64 bit). An alternative would be to
download the VMWare Workstation beta (which is free) and host a guest OS that
supports the driver in it, then redirect the USB device to the guest. I myself
use Windows Server 2003 32bit as guest on a Vista 64bit host, works great.


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