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Subject: 
RE: Could somebody use this program?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:03:22 GMT
Original-From: 
Joel Shafer <JOEL@CONNECT.NETsaynotospam>
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At 01:24 PM 10/5/99 +0000, you wrote:
> My advice (and it's free so it's worth every penny) is to focus
> your considerable skills in polishing and speeding up MLCad. I doubt
> if TLG would distribute it (you might ask nicely though) but you might
> be able to get a book published about it....anyone else in the
> group with writing or publishing experience might want to have
> a look at this program too.
> 
> The other thing you might want to do is try to port it to Mac and Linux
> desktops, in that order. This has BIG potential in the educational market.
> I know some folks that have experience with porting issues to the Mac,
> and I have LOTS of experience in writing software for different
> embedded platforms. Get the software and book into schools, and you are
> golden...

I think Ralph has good advice.

I personally wouldn't use a graphical block building programming
interface.  I hate the RCX Code software that comes with the RIS.  I've
been using NQC under Windows NT and have been very pleased with it.

A better graphical programming interface might be nice for an educational
setting for kids, but isn't that what RoboLab is for?




Joel Shafer    joel@connect.net



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  Could somebody use this program?
 
Hy I'm the author of MLCad and I'm dreaming a bit now. My idea was to write a program which is able to program the CyberMaster and the RCX brick. To construct the program I though I might use something like building blocks one for each possible (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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