Re: Commodore Emulators

2007-11-18 Thread Ed Montgomery
[Same goes for C64 emulators... there are still folks in chemistry and biology and physics who have useful code that runs on the Commodore machines.. even at Big 10 universities. ;)] I have found this to be an EXCELLENT commodore machines emulator, which I've run on several linux

Re: Commodore Emulators

2007-11-18 Thread Albert Cahalan
Ed Montgomery writes: I have found this to be an EXCELLENT commodore machines emulator, which I've run on several linux distros :-) Maybe a fresh new BASIC would be better. It could certainly run much faster than one going through two levels of interpretation. The thought had already crossed

New joyride build 305

2007-11-18 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build305/ -Calculate-12.xo +Calculate-13.xo --- Calculate-13 --- * Parser converted to unicode * Updates to improve translation #4527 * Mul/Div symbol i18n #4573 * Mul/Div button fixed #3526 * Addressed #4250 * Added

Acoustic distance measurement test results

2007-11-18 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joyride builds currently include my Acoustic Tape Measure activity, designed to turn any pair of laptops into a tool for measuring distance. Today, I decided to test the maximum range. I used two B4's running clean installs of joyride 289. I went

Re: Acoustic distance measurement test results

2007-11-18 Thread quozl
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 06:01:22PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: I also encountered some difficulty when sharing the activity over the mesh at distances greater than 25 meters. This might be because the default mesh frequency (Channel 1) is the same as MIT's pervasive wireless network.

Re: Acoustic distance measurement test results

2007-11-18 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How high off the ground were the laptops? At ground height, with ears up, the node to node transmission distance is very small. That's why school server antennas will be mounted high. The laptops were sitting directly on

Re: Acoustic distance measurement test results

2007-11-18 Thread James Cameron
On 19/11/2007, at 11:31 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: The laptops were sitting directly on the ground. Good, consistent results confirmed. Specifically, the laptops were sitting on the rubberized track surrounding the field. The surface appeared perfectly level to me, and free of

Re: Acoustic distance measurement test results

2007-11-18 Thread Jim Gettys
Heh. He said MIT; the field is surrounded by dormitories: very noisy environment -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Xiph-dev] What's the status of Xiph codecs support in the Helix project?

2007-11-18 Thread Samuel Klein
Ivo, perhaps we could come up wit ha set of compliance elements that typical users of OLPC laptops will need, as a case study for what free formats should be supported for other users to be considered 'complete'. Aaron, it would be tremendous to have speex working cleanly on the XOs, since a