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Disappointed with RIS 2.0
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:51:10 GMT
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Ok, I recently purchased some new 2.0 sets for our FIRST LEGO League team, and
I am disappointed enough I think we may switch back to RIS 1.5 or maybe start
using Robolab (which I also don't like much).
The main problem is that the GUI is unusably slow on some of our computers,
including:
an IBM ThinkPad 600 (Pentium II 233 MHz, 192 MB memory)
a Sony Vaio PCG-F250 (Celeron 366 MHz, 128 MB memory)
Even though according to the side of the box, a 233 MHz is supposed to be good
enough. In particular the mouse tracking while in the programming interface is
so slow, kids and adults both get frustrated and cannot use it.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there a fix or workaround?
My other complaint is that it will not support a full 1024 x 768 size display.
Anyway, at this rate we will have to go back to RIS 1.5 and share our serial
towers to communicate with the new RCX units (since 1.5 will not support the
new USB towers).
We cannot use NQC or any non-LEGO programming tool, due to rules of the FIRST
LEGO League competition (www.firstlegoleague.org).
-- Steve Putz
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Disappointed with RIS 2.0
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| Keep in mind though that what is written on the side of the box is -minimum- requirements to run. I still have a bit of a lag with my mouse using 1.5 on a P3 600mhz machine. But I guess I got used to it. Can't comment on v2.0 though... "Steve Putz" (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Disappointed with RIS 2.0
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| If you were willing to use NQC, you could use the "lego script" and ATLclient to compile it, they are very similar. I'm sure RIS2.0 comes with the ATLclient library, but it doesn't come with the little executive standalone "atlclient.exe" that is in (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Disappointed with RIS 2.0 (FIX FOUND)
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| ok, I found a cause/workaround for the mouse tracking performace problem with RIS 2.0: TURN OFF MOUSE "POINTER TRAILS" IN THE WINDOWS CONTROL PANEL It's still not great, but it makes it usable. -- Steve (23 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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