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Re: Why Lego hates educators (was Re: Lego Studio)
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Sun, 4 Jun 2000 20:50:14 GMT
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Yes, they do make such software, but it is never advertised and rarely mentioned
in any of TLG's PR material. Generally speaking, when you wish to garner support
for your product, you let people know it's available rather than make them hunt
for the info.
As far as the lack of USB support, well....that's just plain inexcusable. USB is
the one 'standard' port on both Macs and PCs made in the past 2 years. I'd love
to know the reasoning behind not supporting USB as the default connection. (I'd
love to see Firewire supported as well, but that's just a dream.)
Here's a nice question though: Where do I find Lego Racers for the Mac? Is
simultaneous cross-platform support REALLY that difficult? Id software and many
others don't seem to think so.
Just something to think about.
-Dave
http://www.jps.net/hardcore/lego/
Home of the M-tron Commandos
In lugnet.general, Christopher Masi writes:
> Nicholas pointed out something I find to be most confusing. LEGO has Macintosh
> software that controlls theMindstorms computer brick. They even have an IR tower
> for serial port equiped Macs (I do not think there is any Mac support for the USB
> IR tower), but there is no effort at all to let Mac users know about it.
> My letter for LEGO Consumer Services said that Mac Mindstorms software would be
> ready in 1999...oh well.
>
> Chris
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| Nicholas pointed out something I find to be most confusing. LEGO has Macintosh software that controlls theMindstorms computer brick. They even have an IR tower for serial port equiped Macs (I do not think there is any Mac support for the USB IR (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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