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Re: Ldraw on low systems, laptops
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:55:04 GMT
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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:
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X 0 Car
X 0 Name: Car.dat
X 0 Author: James Jessiman
X 0 Original LDraw Model - LDraw beta 0.27 Archive
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X 0 Car
X 1 0 0 0 -90 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4315.dat
X 1 7 0 0 -60 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4600.dat
X 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3031.dat
X 1 7 0 0 60 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4600.dat
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ERROR 404 PREVIEW IS NOT WORKING LOL
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What you think Ledit ported in to ASCII
In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> > "Eduardo Vazquez Harte" <eduvazhar@terra.es> writes:
> > > Does anyone still use Ledit and ldraw in dos?
> >
> > 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 I would say that LDraw is mostly outdated, while LEdit is still
> > interesting.
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> 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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