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| | | I got a surprise birthday present of a Spybotics set #3808 (is my wife cool or what?). I don't have a Windows machine, but I dug around on the CD-ROM, found the building instructions, and got it working. I'm able to drive it around with remote (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: how to get started programming a Spybot on the Mac? —Brian Davis
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| | | | | (...) What limited Spybots programming I've done has been based on two things. First, this site: (URL) to off the .spybotics frontpage is a great resource as far as it goes (with some examples in NQC even). Second, digging through and testing the (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: how to get started programming a Spybot on the Mac? —Timothy P. Smith
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| | | | (...) Best way to get started would be to buy an RCX and a PC! ;) Seriously, if you can't get NQC to run on your Mac, you might be able to find a decent Windows Emulator that does and use that. Or buy or be given an older PC- doesn't take a lot of (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: how to get started programming a Spybot on the Mac? —Joe Strout
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| | | | (...) Heh -- if robotics required a PC, I'd take up knitting instead! (...) No need; MacNQC seems to run great and looks like a really nice environment. It goes beyond just compiling & downloading NQC code, and includes various interactive panels (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: how to get started programming a Spybot on the Mac? —Joe Strout
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| | | | (...) Well, here's one: don't buy a Dynex USB-to-serial adapter. The packaging and web site both claim it's Mac compatible, but I tried it on two different machines (a G4 Powerbook running 10.2.8 and a dual G5 desktop running 10.3.9), and two (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, FTX)
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