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Re: RCX simulator ?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:52:19 GMT
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Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@AIRMAILnomorespam.NET>
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Stef Mientki wrote:
> > I stopped working on it because there wasn't much demand.
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> 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 computer-type that has about 80% of the home
> market, I'm probably not the only one having this problem ;-)
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 system, many Linux programs will
configure, compile and run OK under Windoze. It's certainly worth
a try and when you develop using it, there is a much higher chance
that what you do won't destroy the version that probably runs just
fine under Linux,BSD,MacOS-X,Solaris and IRIX.
> If I could use your core or your code it would be great.
> But maybe our computer brands are too different to join efforts ??
No - with only a little care, one can quite easily write software that
runs on 99.9% of computers. I wrote several games with graphics, sound,
joysticks, etc, etc - and they all run just fine on a dozen different OS's.
> Although the simulator is still very premature, I test and debug all my
> PIC programs with it now, I just add what I need. Talking with my son
> the idea was born to implement the RCX, its actuators, its sensors, and
> even rooms with obstacles.
I think you are *vastly* underestimating the difficulty of implementing
even the simplest set of physics to represent contact forces between
Lego parts. You could perhaps start with something like ODE - but I
think it would bog down very rapidly with even a simple Robot design.
http://www.q12.org/ode/ode.html
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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 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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