JMS Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Personally I'm not directly involved in LEGO games but my son has quite a lot of it - some older stuff, too disabling me from upgrading his Windows XP to a more current version. I came to this forum since currently I'm trying to aquire a bit of knowledge on programming Spybotics robots and the LIF extractor seems to be quite a helpful tool to learn how things work. I'm a long time programmer myself and due to my personal curiosity I do some deeper peeking in this robots software infrastructure (e.g. diving into the LASM code - see my (german only, sorry) post in my BLog). Although Spybotics is quite old it's not really dead and it seems to be an easy entry into robot programming - ok, we'll see. On the other hand I'll check out the forum for game problems. Actually we have the issue that LEGO HP Years 5-7 will not run on the old XP but (surprisingly) on a Win7 x64 - so actually not a big deal. Have fun Jochen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkly Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Hey JMS, Welcome the the forum. I'm more a part of the welcoming committee than I am actually involved, but you'll see me around occasionally. I'm another one of the programmers on the forum, but I keep most of my projects to myself. Programming Spybotics? I actually still have one of those in my closet. Perhaps I should take it out and give it a try. I think NQC is probably your best bet. Are you looking for something low level? Isn't Lego HP Years 5-7 fairly new? Enjoy your stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Welcome to the forums! Something that might help with programming Spybots is the Bricx Command Center. I used it for NXT but it looked like it supported Spybots as well. I don't have the cable for mine anymore so I couldn't say if it really works or not. Here's a link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bricxcc/files/bricxcc/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted October 24, 2012 Author Share Posted October 24, 2012 Hey JMS, Welcome the the forum. I'm more a part of the welcoming committee than I am actually involved, but you'll see me around occasionally. I'm another one of the programmers on the forum, but I keep most of my projects to myself. Programming Spybotics? I actually still have one of those in my closet. Perhaps I should take it out and give it a try. I think NQC is probably your best bet. Are you looking for something low level? Isn't Lego HP Years 5-7 fairly new? Enjoy your stay. Thanks a lot Sparky. Well, concerning HP it's good enough at it is - running on Win7. My son got it on christmas 2011 and in principle it works but most of the time (so 3 out of 10) it's not willing to load or save and anything is lost - big disappointment, you can imagine. I think it's either because we had the demo installed before (has been uninstalled and hey: sometime it works as expected) or because I had to install on a new HDD other than the default installation path - first one was occupied by so much stuff collected over the years. I took some E-Mail support rounds with LEGO / WB but they gave up. I decided not to put any more time in this issue. For Spybotics I already found stuff like BricxCC or the Mindstorms SDK and quite a bit of documentation especially in the latter one. Since I'm involved in creating software I just spied a bit deeper in libraries and runtime systems I use - started around 1981 with Apple II and the UCSD Pascal p-Machine. I'd like to understand things behind the surface and think I'm already done with that on the spybotics. I've not choosen what programming language to use but currently I think the RX2 file syntax is good enough for what I'll trying to achive. But it's a low prio hobby project only, so I'm not in a hurry. Jochen Welcome to the forums! Something that might help with programming Spybots is the Bricx Command Center. I used it for NXT but it looked like it supported Spybots as well. I don't have the cable for mine anymore so I couldn't say if it really works or not. Here's a link: http://sourceforge.n.../files/bricxcc/ Thanks Cirevam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apemax Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Hello and welcome to RRU JMS. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 The pants! THE PANTS! WHY DID YOU FORGET THE PANTS! Enjoy your stay, and remember, pants forever, legs never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRDocs Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Nice to see a new member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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