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Hi all! I've made some major changes in the BlockCAD rendering code, drawing lines and polygons on my own instead of letting Windows do the work. The effect? On my computer there's a speed gain of 2-10 times (and about 150 times for nice (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Anders: (...) No: $ ./Blockcad.exe ./Blockcad.exe: ./Blockcad.exe: cannot execute binary file $ (...) Linux on a Pentium II. Jacob (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> skrev i meddelandet news:3BED811F.841859...@nbi.dk... (...) OK, trying to be funny just because I didn't say it was Windows only? Sorry, maybe I was thinking that only those who had tried previous versions (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Anders: (...) Yes. Although I actually hoped that you included source code. Jacob (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes. (...) Pentium 3 on Dell PC. Windows ME (...) No previous version. But seems quite fast. The user interface is both good and bad. There are some cool features to it, but there are several things that seem quite hard to get comfortable (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GMLq9z.5t1@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks for testing! I realize I forgot to ask the most important questions: Which video card? What screen resolution, number of colors? (...) If you can (...) (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I wrote... (...) and (...) And I forgot to explicitly mention the fact that this program is Windows only, sorry linux/unix users... (...) I forgot the most important questions: Which video card, what screen resolution, number of colors? (...) your (...) (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> skrev i meddelandet news:3BED8D2A.DB8D0C...@nbi.dk... (...) It wouldn't help the linux community anyway as I'm using Delphi (Borland Pascal). Theoretically, it should be possible to develop in Delphi 6 and (...) (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, quite well. (...) AMD Duron, Windows 98SE Nvidia TNT2 Video, 1280 x 1024, 32 bit color (...) I don't have a previous version of Blockcad, but this seems very fast. (...) Calvin (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It starts up, and loads an example file fine (CarOLD.LGO). But then, when I try to drag and drop a part from the library, I get: "Access violation at address 0040318A in module 'Blockcad.exe'. Read of address 00000018", which won't go away. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I thought Delphi 6 personal was a free download from borland's web-site? As for Linux..... PC Plus (A uk computer title) gives away a disto evrey couple of months on CD. (or evrey moth if you has a DVD drive, a CD writer, and some spare (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Farlie A" <alex_farlie@hotmail.com> skrev... (...) Well, 60MB (or 113 or whatever it was) is a bit steep for a slow modem connection, and anyway the CLX library is not included. And then you need Kylix... (...) couple (...) It's the same with most (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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