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Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
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Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:32:05 GMT
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Hi everyone,

The KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR), a non-profit
educational organization, has been sponsoring continuing work on free
versions of Interactive C.  In the last week, Randy Sargent has
announced Interactive C Version 4, which is available Windows, Linux,
Mac OS 8/9, and Mac OS X platforms.

IC v4 is a huge improvement over the previous free versions of IC, and
in many ways is better than the commercial IC v3 sold by Newton Labs.

You can download IC v4 at http://www.kipr.org/ic/download/ .

The terms of use are: it's free, but any donations made to the KISS
Institute are welcomed.  The KISS Institute is a non-profit charitable
organization and any funds donated to it are fully tax-deductable.

One note for HB users.  Right now IC v4 comes with Handy Board libraries
that assume the use of the Expansion Board.  Perhaps some enterprising
HB users who don't have an Expansion Board can figure out the new
library file format and come up with a set of lib files for the
non-Expansion Board case.  It shouldn't be too hard.

IC v4 also works with the RCX, so those of you HB + RCX owners should
really have fun.

Yours,
Fred



Message has 4 Replies:
  Premature announcement of Interactive C 4.0
 
Actually, Fred's announcement is a little premature, sorry. Several important things to know if you do choose to download the current version of IC: 1) The libraries are tuned for the Botball contest (www.botball.org) and by default include a (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
 
Hi! When I first fired up IC 4 it was wiithout the expansion board, and the HB booted fine. I suppose you could save some memory and processor time if you didn't load the expansion board libraries.) The list of files it downloads seem to be in (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
 
(...) I started playing with this on the RCX last night. Is there a README somewhere on the RCX-specific aspects of the firmware? eg I noticed analog() isn't supported to read raw sensor readings, although digital() works to read passive touch (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
 
Hi Fred Is there a summary of the new features developed in IC 4 ? From the Newton Labs IC 3.x page they list the improvements over the freeware (2.x) version as: (...) Does the 4.x pcode support structs/multidimensional arrays ? What extras does (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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