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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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| 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| 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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