The Red Rover
Red Rover earth site software is to be used
only by those working with the LEGO Red Rover CITY site of
Nick
J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute, WV.
The software for remote Teleoperating the LEGO
City at Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute
for PC Windows 95 (Win 98) is Red
Rover, which is zipped as city.zip for
the LEGO CITY.
Unzip this file city.zip
If you need WinZip access this link Unzip.
If you have doubts about the intructions, once you have started the installation, you can always come back to this screen pressing the "Alt" and "Tab" buttons on the keyboard at the same time and vice versa.
Once you have unzipped the city.zip file, then double click on the Setup.exe that has a computer icon.
(Note: everything is default except that you are to install as an EARTH site and the IP address - lego.marshall.edu - will need to be typed in.)
Now follow the next steps:
After the movie is shown a control panel will
appear.
With the mouse click the "CONNECT" option that
is located at the upper left corner.
Now you can see our LEGO city and control
the monorail with the directional buttons located at the bottom of the
panel.
You can also send messages to us by clicking
the "SEND" button located at the middle top of the panel and a new window
will appear.
Type the message and when finished click the
"SEND" button.
If you want to terminate the program click
the "EXIT" button located at the upper right corner of the panel.
Note: Connect is on the upper left.
Click SEND and you will be able to type a message.
The DNS is lego.marshall.edu