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Premature announcement of Interactive C 4.0
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:43:09 GMT
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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 routine for running the Devantech SRF04 sonar
2) The Mac OS 8/9 port is still early beta-test and has some
problems/missing features.
3) I haven't added the online documentation yet.
4) Downloading firmware to the RCX doesn't explain what's happening to the
user
In the next few weeks, the OS 8/9 port should settle down, I'll add
documentation, and provide more generic libraries, including a library for
Handyboards without expansion board.
In the meantime, PLEASE DON'T CROSS-POST FRED'S ANNOUNCEMENT TO RCX LISTS.
I don't want to get a flood of people using a not-quite-finished version and
have everyone disappointed.
If you want the most up-to-date info on IC releases, you can subscribe to
ic-users@yahoogroups.com
-- Randy
"Fred G. Martin" <fredm@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:D62071D4-138E-11D6-9FB4-0003934F857A@alum.mit.edu...
> 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
>
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