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| Below are some products offered by (URL) I do not understand is that the upgrade kit from 1.0 to 1.5 can already be ordered, but the complete 1.5 will be available in January 2000. Can somebody explain? Harrie de Leeuw The Netherlands 9747 LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Maybe they want to get rid of the 1.0 sets, and to encourage that, they are not selling the 1.5 sets just yet. Instead, they will sell you a 1.0 set with a free upgrade. Now if they do that, why can't I get an upgrade for free? -Kekoa (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Kekoa Proudfoot wrote in message ... (...) My question too. I paid for both the RIS 1.0 and the Scout, but 'll be missing out on the new software to control the Scout from pc, which is in the RIS 1.5 update. I strongly believe this 'patch' should (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It might be that it can - but you won't find any menus in RIS 1.5 program that let's you use the software for the Scout - I strongly believe this will be with a Scout version 1.5 (or 2.0 - depends). They still have to market the Scout in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| FWIW The LEGO shop, Bluewater, UK on Saturday had the following: RIS 1.0 RIS 1.5 DDK RDS The RDS box said it would allow connection to a PC with a future expansion kit, as we already know. They also had the Technics StarWars Battle Droid - about £20 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) You can't control the Scout from the PC with the RIS 1.5 update. All you get is instructions on how to control the Scout from a RCX by sending IR messages. There's a little sample program in the manual (screen shot), and a list of the IR codes (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Thanks for the info! It 'll save me $25 and a big disappointment. Eric (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) [snip] (...) The Lego people I talked to at Mindfest implied very strongly that the new scout programming features would appear on the web site. (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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