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I've spent most of the day installing the software for Mindstorms RiS 2.0. I first tried installing it using wine on linux which did to my surprise work. Well until i got to the important part, making the tower connect to the rcx. See i don't have the 2.0 set, just the software. I figured that since it used usb that it would make my serial tower from 1.5 work with an adaptor cable, but it didn't. I tried selecting both the usb-tower and the serial but the light on the tower never lit up and i kept getting error messages. After trying it on a virtual windows install with the same trouble i decided to try it on my laptop running win7. The virtual install failed because if the host (linux) can't find some hardware, neither will the guest. But i still wanted to try. Well the laptop was a dud as well. Last thing i did was to install the 1.5 on my main computer thinking that it at least was made for the serial tower and might find it despite the usb-connection. Well the first thing it did upon starting was to tell me it didn't find any com-ports, then flip the bird at me and crash. So what now. While typing this i got to thinking about controller cards and back plates with serial plugs on them. Well the back plates are really cheap but require a certain kind of connector on the motherboard which i don't think i have. My motherboard says nothing about having serial connectors inside. The controller cards use pci-express so they would fit but i don't know if they would work. And they aren't exactly cheap. Beyond that the only thing i can think about is getting a usb-tower or an older computer with serial connector. The towers aren't that cheap so i'm better off with the controller cards. But i don't know if they work on newer operating systems. Does win 7 and 8 even support com ports anymore? Surely someone here has a rcx and can answer this. BTW maybe it's me but when i tried searching for help i seemed to get every thread using the word mindstorm even when i tried to include other words to get fewer result. Oh and i got interested in RiS again since i'm going to get into GBC and had at least one idea the needs programming.