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Re: Star Wars Mindstorms = True
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:29:06 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <lmartins@marktest.pt> wrote:
LegOS, NQC (and all the others): Are you ready for starting all over
again in a new hardware/firmware platform? :-)

This was always a known risk.  If LEGO forces us to reverse engineer
another product, I think instead the "classic RCX" will become a hot item.
Hopefully LEGO will get a clue and release low-level interface
documentation next time around.  Firmware source, under something like the
MPL, would be even better.  LEGO is sitting on an untapped gold mine, I
hope they see that.

-Kekoa



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(...) (agreeing) I'd tend to think that any new environment would simply mean one more new environment -- and not the death of the old environment. AFAIK, for example, there are still groups of people today who write Apple ][ software and HP-11C (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) That article makes us believe that at least concerning LEGO, the MindStorms and CyberMaster sets were only the beginning of something much much bigger. I guess this list will never run out of topic, nor all those hackers out there out of (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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