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| | | (...) I stopped working on it because there wasn't much demand. I never intended to write a full-blown simulation environment. I hoped other people would write appropriate front ends (GUIs that might let you interact with the RCX's sensors, or (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: RCX simulator ? —Steve Baker
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| | | | | Dave Baum wrote: > I hoped other (...) That's clearly the next step - the question is - does anyone want it badly enough to do it? Personally, I'd rather just run my programs on the real RCX. It seems to me that RCX programs are generally simple (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: RCX simulator ? —Stef Mientki
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| | | | hi Dave, (...) I see your simulator every half year, searching the web for one. But maybe I'm very stupid, everytime I download the sources (all there is) and then I don't know what to do with them (my computer doesn't know either). Because I've a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: RCX simulator ? —Trevyn Watson
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| | | | | Dave wrote it in Java, so youll need the Java Runtime Envrionment. You can find it at (URL) installing that, you need to unzip everything in the zip file from Dave to one folder. After that, I'm not sure how to proceed. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: RCX simulator ? —Dave Baum
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| | | | | (...) You should be able to compile and run the files on a Windows computer. Even though Micrsoft would like to kill Java, Sun keeps shipping Windows tools and runtime environments for Windows. I wrote the simulator in Java specifically so it (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: RCX simulator ? —Steve Baker
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| | | | (...) As someone who uses an operating system that has 80% of the OpenSource developers, I think I can explain how you can get this software to work even on a system with hopelessly inadequate OpenSource support. :-) ...If you use the (free!) Cygwin (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: RCX simulator ? —Stef Mientki
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| | | | (...) I cann't disagree with you, ... but I live in an surrounding where even 99% is using this M$-OS. And I'm just too simple to get Linux working ;-( I'm not a software programmer, and learning one computer language was difficult enough for me. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: RCX simulator ? —Thomas Schweitzer
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| | | | Hi all! (...) We don't need to simulate all of the mechanics because we've got the real thing. What about remote controlling the complete robot with the brain inside your PC? In the case of simulation we could degrade the RCX to a stupid IO device. (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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