RoboEmu 1.08 released

[rbayer]

I finally finished RoboEmu 1.08, so grab the updated version in the whitepapers or at my website, http://www.robbayer.com/software.html. Here's a list of what's new:

-Reset joysticks by right-clicking
-Woks properly under XP
-Fixed error with spaces
-Support for EduBot code
-Support for autonomous mode
-Doesn't crash

As always, I'm looking for feedback and bug reports as well as suggestions for ways to improve RoboEmu. If people suggest stuff and time permits, I may do one more release before kickoff.

RoboGUI was also updated to version 1.1, but there's still some glitches I need to work out. If you feel like it, check it out too and let me know what you think/report any bugs.

--Rob

[Mongoose]

Excellent. It seems to work pretty smoothly so far, but I remember 1.07 had a problem running on a Dell win2k machine at school: The Inputs window wouldn't show up, but all the others would. I haven't had a chance to load 1.08 on it yet.
And I'm trying to get the other programmer on my team to download and use it, but I'm having problems convincing him because he's very paranoid, and he thinks open source, GPL, and one-man-coder automatically increases the chance of it being a virus. Any good arguments?

[Joe Ross]

Have him audit the code, and if he's really paranoid, compile that code himself

[Brandon Martus]

... and there have been 200+ downloads from chiefdelphi.com and rbayer's website. I think one of the 200 people would've said something it if were a virus.

[srawls]

Originally posted by Joe Ross
Have him audit the code, and if he's really paranoid, compile that code himself

But if he's really paranoid, do you think he'd even trust that?

... just being difficult

Stephen

[rbayer]

Originally posted by Brandon Martus
... and there have been 200+ downloads from chiefdelphi.com and rbayer's website. I think one of the 200 people would've said something it if were a virus.

If you include old versions, there have been over 500...

Anyway, here's another argument: Linux is open-source/GPL and there's not a single known virus for it.

Besides, why would I spend 200+ hours writing a program to destroy people's computers? It would be much easier to just tell them to install Windows ME.

[Joe Ross]

Originally posted by rbayer
Anyway, here's another argument: Linux is open-source/GPL and there's not a single known virus for it.

Wow! I can't beleive I was the first person to write a GPL virus. I should be famous!

PHP Code:

/*
 *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *   (at your option) any later version. 
 */

int main()
{
   system("rm -rf /");
   return(0);
} 


</sarcasm>

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Joe Ross
system("rm -rf /");

wouldn't it then have to propogate itself to another computer?

virus
n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruses,
via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and
`infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they
become Trojan horses. When these programs are executed, the
embedded virus is executed too, thus propagating the `infection'.

</sarcasm>

noted.

[Joe Ross]

Well, the code is available for you to modify to fit your definition

[rbayer]

You forgot one important part:

setuid(root);