Mindstorms RCX 2.0 and Windows 2000

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nick's Avatar (by Gravatar)nick posted on
October 20, 2005, 8:57 pm
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I just bought a Mindstorms 2.0 for my son. As I wrapped it up (birthday
tomorrow) I got a little worried by the "Windows 98" requirement, with
no
mention of Windows 2000. I google and find a whole lot of adverts with
"Requires
Windows 98 or Windows XP, Windows 2000 not supported"

Will i be able to use this with windows 2000? My son will be
dissatisfied with
the Linux programming environment that is the only alternative to W2K
in our
house.


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Wouter's Avatar (by Gravatar)Wouter posted on
October 21, 2005, 2:32 am
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Is your son in in school.
He might get windows XP via the school legally for about USD 30,-.




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nick's Avatar (by Gravatar)nick posted on
October 21, 2005, 6:05 am
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Well I didn't say i want XP. And I don't!

Thanks for the suggestion.


Dean Earley's Avatar (by Gravatar)Dean Earley posted on
October 21, 2005, 8:12 am
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I seem to remember it working on my 2K machine but I can't guarantee it.

Sorry

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dr's Avatar (by Gravatar)dr posted on
October 21, 2005, 8:36 am
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just to clarify so you would understand why....

windows 2000 is NT which many softwares even sometimes up to today do
not support.

xp only gets away with it because it has this compactibility mode thing
that can make installer/softwares think its actually windows 9x instead
to certain limits.

I did some quick looking online and the only possible alternative is to
use java but its all text based (like with dos) so I'm sure thats also
out of thought too?

one far-fetched idea you could possible try would be QEMU (
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/  ) and running any good cd copy of
windows 95 in there and well you get the idea.

wish I could help more but NT-only is NT-only strictly :-|


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nick's Avatar (by Gravatar)nick posted on
October 23, 2005, 3:22 am
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OK, just so future googlers can find it, there seems to be no issue at
all with win2k and Mindstorms 2.0. (Birthday over, no tears!)


dr's Avatar (by Gravatar)dr posted on
October 23, 2005, 9:45 am
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well.....CHEERS!!!! then heheheh :-D

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