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Re: Gyphon Bricks? (CAD for the Mac)
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Date: 
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:16:03 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Mike Clemens wrote:

In lugnet.cad, Mike Clemens writes:
Anyone have any experience with this software?  Being a Mac user, I'm jealuous
of all the lDraw activity in my midst... :-)  I found a copy in a nearby store
for about $10... I'm tempted to get it, just for the pure geek factor.  (And
maybe I can hack it... hmmm...)

Oh, bad form, replying to myself.  After downloading the demo, I picked up the
software for a discount, since it's so old.  I'll give it a whirl, and if I can
pick apart the file format, maybe I'll try to get it playing nice with lDraw...

It's newer than LDraw...

My mom has a copy of Gryphon Bricks, for Windows.  The kids play it when they're
at her house.

It's not a bad program, fairly easy to use, but it should be considered a
lego-virtual-clone, as many of the pieces are not 'real LEGO'.

Steve



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  Re: Gyphon Bricks? (CAD for the Mac)
 
In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes: [...] (...) It's not a bad little program. The biggest limitations I can find are: - fixed color palette (no clear bricks, those these were hacked in later) - only horizontal orientation (no angular or 90-degree (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Gyphon Bricks? (CAD for the Mac)
 
(...) Oh, bad form, replying to myself. After downloading the demo, I picked up the software for a discount, since it's so old. I'll give it a whirl, and if I can pick apart the file format, maybe I'll try to get it playing nice with lDraw... - Mike (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)

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