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(...) I think it was probably a mistake. I wouldn't expect them to do this knowingly. BTW, I liked the middle car best. Fredrik (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) None that I know of. But there is a sketch for a vehicle with brakes in an old idea book. Look at page 63 in the 8888 idea book. For example in (URL) do you expect the Supercar to have brakes? There are many other things it lacks, such as (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Iain, Richard is correct about it being a air device . I put Hydraulic in qoutes because there was much discussion about Lego advertizing a "Hydraulic" action when no real fluid is involved, unless you count air as a fluid. the New part works (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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How about a Forth based environment running on the PC? It would not be that difficult to move the RCX based compiler to be a cross compiler on the PC. One would be able to run in two modes - "native" through a Forth based terminal (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) After spending another two nights with NQC & RcxCC (:-), another wish came up in my mind quite clearly: I use the "Watching the RCX" tool window quite frequently for debugging, and I'd find it great if it could display the *names* of the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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How about a more generalized interface to the pbForth system. Although Ralph Hempel believes this to be unnecessary, I find the RcxCC interface quite appealing. Harald Striepe (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) That's from Matt's "Track Designer" program, I think... --grin-- JohnG, GMLTC (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Seriously though.....why are there no brakes ? Are there any models that have brakes ? And has any Lego Wizard (Dave Baum are you there ?) motorised the automatic gearchange.....then you could control eveything via RIS Regards Tim Wilkins (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Its definitely a different picture, but probably the same car. Dave Baum (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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The "new" part is a spring powered air "controled" device. It looks like an oversized technic "shock absorber". But is uses a pneumatic plunger with limited air flow to slow the movement. -Rich (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8448 there are no brakes !!!!!
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(...) I think you throw it in reverse to stop. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Building a Mini-fig Army, how much to pay
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(...) my most valued accessories (i.e., the ones I hoard mercilessly): - black sword (Armor Shop) - Crusader flag (Armor shop) - black 2x2x3 (I think) tower top (Black Falcon's Fortress) - Black Falcon flag (Black Falcon's Fortress) - gray treasure (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I'm pretty sure that the car couldn't have been built outside of Lego. Consider all of those yellow "axles" (both flexible and normal). All of the flexible ones I've seen in real sets have little ridges near the ends. I don't see any ridges in the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) mentioned Since I havn't seen this set up close I have to wonder... Surely this can't really be a LEGO Hydraulic system, to parallel the pneumatic system? Have I missed something? Iain -- tokama (URL) UIN 5362826 AIM Linjerflyg h e n d r y j r (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) That is indeed a great idea. I'm sure a lot of people would love it. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.org.us)
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One question, why all the black 2x2 plates between track sections?? (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Here is my quick list (feel free to add, contradict, and subtract): Most (by virtue of being unique): White Maiden's hat (from 6023) Black sword (From 6041 Armor Shop) The old school visors from the yellow castle Black Falcons Flag The (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Todd, Gee... thanx for the compliments on my Java-Brix-Builder. I never thought to mention it earlier. I had originally programmed it to attract the attention of the folks who designed the legolandca.com website (they had been using some of my (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow! Great company indeed! (...) This would be a good idea, and one day, pbForth will get there. I used to ship a Tcl based shell with pbForth, but it wasn't working well on all platforms. Here's why pbForth is the way it is, and forgive the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) ---- Subtotal 653 (...) ---- Subtotal of 'real' Lego ;=) 1397 ----- Grand Total 2050 This is not a good example to set for kids. Even if the remaining 122 are "miscellaneous" (Throwbots?), it would be good to mention them in a near-exhaustive (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(URL) minifigs, click hinges, minifig accessories, etc. take a look.... Eugwe Coral (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Can it be true ? I am three quarters of the way through building the super car. It has steering,gears, transmission, a working engine,when motorised it sounds very realistic, even the gear stick vibrates in neutral.........but I cannot see any brake (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Ragazzi, sapete quando/se/chi/come/dove/quando verra` sostituito il servizio di www.legoworldshop.com ? Ciao. Marco. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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As I have said before - there are many younger people who read these posts. At least - I get emails occasionally from younger poeple who claim to read these posts... The cleaner the better... Eugwe Coral (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Hi Andy, That's not a datalog but the memory itself. Part of the memory map, and a util to see the content of variables in the Scout while it's running a program can be seen on my website. CU Bert Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Lego (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) 125 (...) After nine years of collecting (two in Germany thanks to uncle sam) I have: Black Knights 99 Lion(full Lion body) 61 Royal Knights 60 Fright Knights 68 Woodsmen 51 Black Eagles 48 Crusaders (crossed Battle Axe with six classic (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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It amazes me what you have accomplished in such a short amount of time with trains..Kinda makes me jealous..I've been looking for a couple of those sets for a while..good thing I'm patient. :) Enjoy!! michael (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Yellow Supercar on Lego.com
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It has even the same transmission and both have a motor on the same place!!! (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Re: Who Cares. If you don't care (!?), I'll take them off your hands and surely you can then be happy. They were the only ones I could get my hands on, because of that whole psychological Dark Ages thing I went through in my teenage years when (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) To begin with a license is only binding for those that have signed it. The rest of the world is not bound by it. So if you license something you'd better make very sure that it is not spread further. That is usually done by using huge damages. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Mario Ferrari" <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message news:Fnp8Ir.9py@lugnet.com... (...) non (...) RCX, (...) tutti (...) Confermo. Anche i miei due RCX non rivelano traccia del problema. Credo sia meglio chiamare Lego. -- Cheers Carlo. LUGNET (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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(...) maybe (...) you (...) army. (...) Black sword found in the Black Smith shop. Light gray weapons and helmets next to that would be Dark gray visor helmets, grill helmets, bullet, barbute Old style swords, black axes, horse bardards (covers) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Cool! My honeymoon is just booked, and the good news is that I will be Hawaii in July :) Rogelio Garingo <rogelio@hits.net> wrote in message news:Fnp0uv.M0M@lugnet.com... (...) off. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Yes. It is important to realise, that the RCX, does not perhaps do the interpretation in the way you think. In each 'loop', it executes one instruction from each of the possible threads, and also reads the A-D's, on each sensor, and updates to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Do you want $50 for a $20 set?
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Mark, I saw one or two of these at a local store just two weeks ago. If you like, I can check to see if they still have any -- they're an out-of-the-way place and don't generally move their toy merchandise that quickly. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) No wonder that picture on lego.com looks so familiar! One small thing to point out, though, is that the car in the picture on lego.com is facing towards the left, whereas the article's picture is facing the right. Does that mean anything? (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 5571
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(...) Probably your best bet would be ebay. That's where I got mine. Unless there's someone out there willing to sell you one right here. (not me, I'm keeping mine). :) Just go to ebay and type 5571 in the search box. You'll find the occasional (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: New Program I am making
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(...) I was recently told by Steve Bliss that the updated parts.lst file is included in the official updates. Fredrik (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Pizza To Go auction via E-mail/Lugnet/RTL
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I found that I have an excellent copy of this set acquired from a friend in a large lot...... there is no box but the instructions are included (very good shape) the only par missing is a transparent coffe mug....I substituted a red one from my (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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I mean armour shop, whoops! (I don't think Lego would put out an amourshop, if you know what I mean...) -- Paul Davidson Paul Davidson <tinman@direct.ca> wrote in message news:Fnp8AF.916@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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