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Re: Thoughts on NQC for Scout
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 25 Nov 1999 03:50:37 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Dave Baum writes:
> [...] Ideally, I would like to allow NQC to target the Scout.
> However, in order to do this I will need to know the Scout's
> download protocol and its bytecode format.
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> I suspect the official line from Lego is presently something
> like this: "use the ScoutDos.exe assembler as a back end for NQC".
That is definitely true, at least right now. Everyone who downloaded the Scout
SDK agreed not to "reverse-engineer" it, and that includes figuring out the
download protocol or bytecode format.
As I see it, the only way the download protocol or bytecode format are going to
become legally available is if someone figures it out on their own, without
having interacted with any of us. You can't just recruit someone to do the work
for you, because asking someone to do it makes you partly responsible for what
they have done, and you would still be considered guilty of
reverse-engineering.
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> As I see it, there are three alternatives here:
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> 1) Hack it [...]
> 2) Get official information from Lego. [...]
> 3) Forget it - no NQC for Scout. Personally this is OK with me.
> I have more than enough RCX's and don't need to use a Scout for
> possible expansion.
I agree -- how many people want to do the types of things you need NQC for and
not want more sensors and motors at the same time? Not very many, I suspect.
The Scout makes a great motor-controller add-on for the RCX, and that's about
all the hardcore users are doing to be doing with it.
- Robert Munafo www.mrob.com
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| With the advent of the Scout SDK, several people have asked me if I plan on making NQC available for Scout. I thought it would be appropriate to summarize my position on this and post it... The Scout SDK looks quite interesting - clearly the Scout (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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