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Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: every icon is an object
Message-ID: <1041@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 14:16:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 14:16:59 1987
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Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <1205@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>While you're looking at examples of wiring up icons to do jobs, don't miss
>the educational program "Rocky's Boots", appearing on a home computer near
>you.  If it's simple enough for kids to do, it can't be all bad.

I've never tried Rocky's Boots, but I have tried a similar program called
Robot Odyssey.  In that program you have to write up robots to perform tasks
for you.  The reasons is that you are stuck in an underground world and are
trying to get out of it.

You wire circuits to control the robots' thrusters, sensors, radio, etc.
You have a limited supply of components, so you also have to burn chips.
(Burning a chip creates a compiled version of your circuit, and allows you
to reuse its componenets.)

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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