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Subject:	Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:33:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse writes: > In lugnet.cad.dev, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: > > It occurs to me that a CD-bootable LDraw Linux distro would ROCK if > > there were even a handful of decent LDraw tools available for Linux. > Ouch! That really stings! All kidding aside, what exactly would > comprise "a handful of decent LDraw tools". Besides a linux l3p > executable, what's missing? I'd like some ideas to add to my "to do" > list. Sorry, didn't mean to be insulting there. :-, What Linux (and to some extent, Windows too) really needs is a semi-fast LEdit clone. I understand that one of the newer tools (LDGlite?) has an LEdit mode, but is kinda slow without hardware acceleration. In a pinch, switching back and forth between a LDraw-savvy text editor and a LDraw viewer would work, but you lose a lot doing it this way... Of course I *could* get off my duff and teach myself some more 3d matrix math as well as some cross-platform low-level GUI code, and write it myself, but I haven't. > > You wouldn't even need X loaded, just do all the screen code via > > Allegro or SDL... > That's an interesting thought. Is there some small memory footprint > linux distribution you had in mind? Is allegro normally a shared > library on linux? I'm not thinking so much about a small memory footprint, but more along the lines of getting X out of the picture. I imagine the goal is to keep such a distro as simple as possible. Eliminate X, and you've saved yourself 90% of your configuration (and memory) woes. I don't know if Allegro or SDL are shared libs, but they ARE cross-platform, and on Linux they can use the video framebuffer (or at least Allegro can, not sure about SDL). I'm just brainstorming here, so it's okay for me to admit I'm probably wrong about all this, right? :-, Cheers, - jsproat

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		Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
I just tested a POV-RAY scene with my syster's pc the P-75 and it took 35seconds with the dos version of POV-RAY In my P-3 pc takes 2 - 3 seconds with windows XP runing using a command line dos window. About making a boot disk with povray.exe "dos" (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
(...) So it all boils down to speed? Has anyone actually tried the LEdit mode (besides the Mac folks who currently have no other option)? I'm just wondering how much of a speedup is required. I've used it for small things on my 486 laptop, but that (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
(...) Ouch! That really stings! All kidding aside, what exactly would comprise "a handful of decent LDraw tools". Besides a linux l3p executable, what's missing? I'd like some ideas to add to my "to do" list. (...) That's an interesting thought. Is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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