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Hey guys, I had an idea. What if people built their robots in a modular fashion? There's always a mechanism RCX and a logic RCX. The logic RCX runs the game engine and tells the mechanism brick what todo. Everything is functionalized into "Drop at (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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Quoting David Eaton <deaton@intdata.com>: (...) Wouldn't you only have to look ahead one step at a time? The opponent only has 7 choices on any given turn. It's pretty much impossible to say like playing a computer in chess, figure out how the game (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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(...) To give some reference for plausibility, a look-ahead will reveal (I think): Look-ahead | Max Possibilities ---...---+---...--- 1 | 7 2 | 49 3 | 238 4 | 1,120 5 | 4,263 6 | 16,422 7 | 54,859 8 | 184,868 9 | 821,283 So, you're entirely right. (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: My Star Destroyer has died. :-(
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(...) A mini Star Destroyer, what a cool idea. There are several people a way on vacation this week who are quite used to seeing the Star Destroyer there. I should build your mini one and put it up as a replacement. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: My Star Destroyer has died. :-(
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(...) snip (...) Hopefully TLC is listening. Sounds like there may need to be some changes, before hoards of unhappy ISD owners riot. Derek, I offer you my regrets for your bent technic beams and the loss of your ISD as a whole. May I offer you a (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: My Star Destroyer has died. :-(
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(...) Oh it's well worth building, and there's no problem with keeping it together for say a month. Mine however has been build for almost a year now. Unfortunately it's not designed well to be assembled for that long. But it's a beautiful model and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: My Star Destroyer has died. :-(
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(...) I purchased 2 of the ISD's for parts only. After reading the stories about disasters and near disasters, I am glad I never built one. However, it is a great looking model. Steven Weiser (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | My Star Destroyer has died. :-(
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RIP. Well someone mentioned to me recently that they had read about people having problems with bent beams after having their Star Destroyers built for a long time. So today I decided to inspect my Star Destroyer. I took one of the lower panels off (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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(...) I don't believe so! (...) You bring up a good point we haven't touched on yet. If we do opt for an IR "your turn" signal (which, from what I've been reading, is what we're steering away from now), we'll have to assign numbers to people to use (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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(...) Speaking of fitting stuff into 20 RCXs, is there a limit in this game for how many RCXs can be used? If not, doesn't that kill the idea that we can put the RCXs fact to face, to communicate with the opponent? Dang. I liked that idea better (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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(...) [butting in] By my calculations there are 261,827 distinct states the board can be at by the 8th move (184,868 board combos for turn 8 itself). I don't have numbers for further states, cuz, well, it was taking too long for my program to (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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(...) If your going to do that, then why bother having the board at all. We could just point to RCXs at each other. Derek (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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(...) Vison Command! If your going to use IR why not just send the column number as well? 'Dear opposing RCX. I dropped my chip down column number X, your turn.' Steve (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto14 Raiders of the Lost Part Photos
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(...) You're dumb. :) I thought it was cool and comfortable. (...) Things like this make me feel not so sad that I dropped out of college. Iain (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto14 Raiders of the Lost Part Photos
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(...) Thanks, but they're a combination of mine, Derek, Bruce and Rob's photos. (...) I would have liked more light. If they allow us to turn on the dimmer packs in the back room, we can have a hell of a lot more light. I liked the room too--it had (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect Four game issues
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(...) Sad isn't it. (...) I don't think there is a fuse on a linecard, DMS-100 that is. I'll have to dig up the commemorative 100,000th linecard (cast in stylish lucite) paperweight and confirm. Remember that thing? Best dumpster find I ever made. (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | RE: Connect Four game issues
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(...) Geez that reminds me. Kids being kids, they tended to fiddle with the slider at the bottom of the game board that emptied the playing field. It got so bad that we added a rule that if you accidentally moved the slider and emptied the game (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Connect 4 game objectives?
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(...) I love it! Makes perfect sense to me. (...) Gotcha. I like that because it still lets you do whatever kind of robot you want (I didn't like this home stuff because what if I want to use my home switch for something else, blah blah blah?). (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto14 Raiders of the Lost Part Photos
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(...) I forgot to mention that I loved the atmosphere in that room. Concrete walls and really good lighting. It had a good "feel". Iain (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) AC power cords. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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