Restoring the LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System set

[Coder Shah]

I did a video on this, hope it's useful

 

[Munchkin255]

Nice one.

I can recommend to use RobotC for programming the RCX in a C-based environment.

It is a free download from robotc.net : http://robotc.net/download/rcx/
And I think that this will run in modern Windows versions - no need for virtual box

Edited June 26, 2020 by Munchkin255
Fixed typo

[Coder Shah]

3 hours ago, Munchkin255 said:

Nice one.

I can recommend to use RobotC for programming the RCX in a C-based environment.

It is a free download from robotc.net : http://robotc.net/download/rcx/
And I think that this will run in modern Windows versions - no need for virtual box

Yeah, but I use a Mac.

I'll check it out. Thanks.

[Toastie]

On 6/26/2020 at 3:14 PM, Munchkin255 said:

And I think that this will run in modern Windows versions - no need for virtual box

That is absolutely true. But the USB tower won't, as the 32bit drivers were never updated to 64bit environments. Many people searched for that driver.

What works perfectly well though is the serial tower, which came with the 1.0 RIS + a RS232-USB adapter. You may want to make (manually) sure that the USB port used by the adapter is <=8. In the days of RCX/RIS, no one could never envision the need to have more than 8 USB ports ...

Same holds true for NQC/BricxCC and other older software. Wait I somewhere wrote all that up ... here it is:

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/157550-lego-history-programming-20-years-old-mindstorms-rcx’-on-modern-computers/

Best
Thorsten