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RATINGS (Scale: Must-Have Excellent Very-Good Good Fair Poor) Set: Excellent Models: Fair Playability: Poor DECALS? No. SPECIAL FEATURES/COMPATIBILITY Trains - 9V (but not the old fashioned kind that need metal track) SET DESCRIPTION This set is (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: All about me!
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: snip (...) I says to myself, "Who would actually notice the doll house box in the pic and comment on it?" Oh wait--Chris! That's who! Thank goodness I have a kid sister that can take the fall for the (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: All about me!
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(...) Ummm, Dave.... While its cool to see you in your mis-spent "yoot" and while it IS cool to see all the lego... I just don't know if you want the greater Lugnet comunity to know about the DOLL house you got for x-mas in the 70's. Chris (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) My understanding is that the new Wine supports the .NET framework using MONO (open source implementation of nearly all of .NET). I think it is older programs, and game-like programs (like LEGO's designer) that it has trouble with. -Chris Gray (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | London Drugs Sale
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I don't know how widespread their flyers are, but I just got a London Drugs flyer that says that from Nov 10 to Nov 30, all Lego is 20% off. -Chris Gray (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) Please note that instead of "0 ROTSTEP 0 0 0 REL", the preferred meta command is "0 ROTSTEP END". (...) There are 4 kinds of ROTSTEPS: REL, ABS, ADD, END For REL, you add the angles from the ROTSTEP meta to the default viewing angle to get the (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) The more I think about it, the more I suspect that LDView 3.2 on the Mac is to blame. I sent Allen an email with a link to an LDView 4 test build. --Travis (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | All about me!
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Putting Chris's hat on for a moment... (URL) Early '70's at Christmas. Those were the days--receiving LEGO sets at Christmas... oh wait, I still do :) Dave K (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Working Container Crane
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(...) Lewis, My camera is capable of full-screen video, and I should be able to burn a copy of the .avi video onto a CD/DVD for you. Scott (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It is indeed written using MFC, which it makes extensive use of for the GUI. Porting it to another platform would take considerable effort. I think what I'm going to do first is get the source code into a package I can release (and archive!) (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Working Container Crane
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(...) Cool Lewis! Now I want to see some details of the electromagnet and how you got it working :) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4999 Vestas
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(...) Jaaa.. precis... haha.. o den vart 150kr dyrare än den oöppnade jag ropade in :P Fördelen med den var att de var en kille här från Borlänge som hade den... Nu lär jag åka 12 mil till lindesberg o hämta den istället. meeen.. de är de värt =) (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) snip (...) Alas. That is what I'm supposed to see, not what I actually do see. Something is convinced that the 0,0,0 rotation is actually equal to the default 3D angle, which causes requests for the real default 3D angle to be over-rotated. (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) What about (URL) BlueBrick>, as discussed in (URL) #3>? Might be good to coordinate efforts. Benn (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Working Container Crane
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Finally got it working! I just finished a working container crane. It uses a nxt, three motors, a light sensor and a electromagnet. (yes it is not completely pure) The crane will randomly choose a container from the ship and more it to a randomly (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | November 15th, 2008 SMART meeting
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Time is sneaking up really quickly for our next meeting! The meeting will be November 15th at DigiPen from 2 to 5pm. The mini-challenge is a walking robot race - walk to the end of a field, turn around, and return to the starting spot. See (URL) for (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Proof of concept - Vid 2
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(URL) it's RCX'ed That was slightly more difficult than I thought It isn't perfect--still needs a little tweaking, but it's a great start The monorail switch mechanism needs to be improved but the rest is pretty good So there you are Dave K (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.space)
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(...) If Matt or someonelse rewrite the code (open sourced or not) I would suggest to use a framework that is available to most of the OS like Qt or GTk. That way it would be really easy to port to all OS not just the most known. Wine is working (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) Given the reports that its using MFC, it would be easier to rewrite a new version from scratch than to port the existing one. (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) For me, the great think about Track Designer is that it runs just fine under the Wine Windows emulator. I've used it that way under my X86-64 Linux machine for several layouts, including working on NALUG layouts for train shows. I've never (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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