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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) Congratulations, you have reached the MAX_PARTS in L3P! L3P has an array of properties for all loaded parts (or rather DAT files), and long time ago I set the size to 900 - I didn't imagine anyone would (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with POV-RAY
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John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) L3P *does* do .mpd's and has done so since Version 1.1 19981221, see: (URL) C. Hassing "No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway." L3P page: (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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(...) Great job, Greg. I might have to try something like that soon. ..joseph g (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | More Mindfest Tidbits
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This is a listing of a number of things that happened at Mindfest both related to the NELUG table and in general. 1. There were quite a few TLG reps on hand and many of us had a chance to chat with them. I will relate the few experiances I had and (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Launch of new site: SimiLego
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No Doubt, I've been salivating ever since I saw it about 5 minutes ago. Andreas, are you in Kansas City? Just wondering because you have lots of KC stuff yet the ISP is from Chicago. Great stuff! Wife must be way understanding. I just moved from KC (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Explorien Starship #6982
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My point was not to compete with anyone, especially DYA. Simply that I observed several of a hard-to-find set at a particular store. For those who wanted one and could not locate it, there they are. If someone partakes of those sets, cool. If not, (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: by far rarest knights
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Dirk, You are right... I forgot all about the 1592 Knights, and I guess everyone else did, too. I have about 10 of these knights, making them the rarest knights in my collection. I have more of any other type of knight that Lego made, I am quite (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Kids of today have grown up around nintendo games and action figures You give a kid of today a 5571 giant truck or an 8880 supercar and say here are the instructions and here are the bits. see if you can put it together. do you think that we (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Double echo
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(...) This is a good idea Sergey. Obvoiusly you have got a set of tools up to build the pbForth from the distribution. Does the makefile work OK for you? I might suggest that I add a word that turns the echos off or on? How does ECHO_OFF ( -- ) (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Minifig Fire Helmet (3834)
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Hi For the parts with some regularity (helmets etc) I draw them up on graph paper, showing three projections, converting the curves to polygons/prisms, using judgement as to the level of detail. Circular sections follow the 16-agon standard, curves (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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(...) Right on! SW Legos is what brought me out of my dark ages. For at least a year prior to the release of the SW line, I almost invested in other Lego products, but I could never quite justify the expense to myself. But it was SW that brought me (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) I have a feeling that this has been said before, but still: Let's not forget that the Star Wars sets are probably the best LEGO System sets for a long time. I think most people would agree that these sets are much better in terms of (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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(...) Junorised pieces refer to parts like the new bay window pieces in the new town sets or the one piece car wheelbases from the new town sets. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I would say Lego has been targeting primarily kids since the introduction of the mini-fig. I can't think of even one instance (and I've been here a long time) where Lego implemented something an AFOL wanted. What's changed is that Lego now (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mythical creatures was:Re: Pricing and stuff
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(...) I've seen them, I've seen them! Lego reps that is, not drop bears. But I didn't speak to them. (There were two together, some sort of Dropbear training?)!:) James. Bunyip anyone? Hmm... do 'mericans understand what a bunyip is? (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) I do like these ideas and have tossed them around in my head myself but it allways comes back to $$. One of the biggest problem is to balance donations with peoples ability to pay. I for one could probably donate a fair amount but someone else (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: High praise for TLG after seeing 4288 bucket for first time
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(...) I've got a lot of these which you can have if you want.... (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Why? The spare parts packs (with the occasional exception) suck, and have sucked for years. They're mostly runoff from whatever sets Lego is producing at the time anyway. Have you ever considered purchasing DACTA sets? (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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Would this be all service packs, or only those in the 5xxx range? Surely they will not discontinue essential service packs, such as the 9756 LEGO MINDSTORMS Rotation Sensor, for example. Peter Callaway <pcallaway@bmcl.com.au> wrote in message (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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(...) I'm dual-booting to Win95 (haven't gotten around to bothering with NT, and don't want to give MS any more of my money) to use Photoshop. The GIMP is decent, but it's not there yet in power, features, or ease of use. I hope it will be someday, (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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