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Re: Ldraw on low systems, laptops
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:25:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Eduardo Vazquez Harte" <eduvazhar@terra.es> writes:
> > Does anyone still use Ledit and ldraw in dos?
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> Yes, I do. Well, I use LEdit for editing, but for explorative
> viewing, I use L3Lab. Nowadays, though, I tend to use the LEdit mode
> in ldglite, because it runs on the OS I use the most.
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> I would say that LDraw is mostly outdated, while LEdit is still
> interesting.
I would tend to agree. LEdit is still interesting. It's fast
and efficient because it was written to be used on PCs with very
little resources. It's also interesting because of the philosophy
that a little training up front can make you much more productive
than a screen full of buttons and tooltips, but only if you're
willing to make it through the learning phase. And some people
really like the keyboard-only interface.
I suspect if LEdit ran in a window on Windows95 or above, nobody
would ever bother with the DOS version again. It's pretty hard
(around here at least) to even find used hardware that can't run
at least Win95 decently. Alternatively you can run linux on
just about any old hardware as long as you avoid the really bloated
eye candy stuff like KDE or Gnome.
However if you're really motivated (or incredibly bored) I've
managed to build a version of ldglite (with LEdit mode, MPD support,
model spinning, and most of the good stuff) that can be built and
run in DOS with the DJGPP version of the gcc compiler and the
AllegroGL library. If you're looking for a learning experience, it
could use someone really committed to DOS to work on it and fix some
things. The nice thing about using the gcc compiler is that it's
free and is it runs on just about anything. But it's probably
harder to learn than Delphi.
Don
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| You are more than 100% right that's what so great about it the "just keyboard use" and no eye candy or big XP buttons just 2 things text and the view window and not 4 at the same time like other cad software in other words like this: ......... X 0 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ldraw on low systems, laptops
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| (...) Yes, I do. Well, I use LEdit for editing, but for explorative viewing, I use L3Lab. Nowadays, though, I tend to use the LEdit mode in ldglite, because it runs on the OS I use the most. I would say that LDraw is mostly outdated, while LEdit is (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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