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Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:42:14 GMT
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message
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Wow this is long...

Heheh...

In late 1996 or early 1997, I asked James if he wanted to collaborate with
me on a tutorial for a ThinkQuest entry.

Added that you intro'ed the tutorial in Sept 98 (and I will link to it).

Snipped cool history tidbits on LDraw/LEdit.

SimLego
LDrawLauncher
LDraw-AddOn
LDLite
LeoCad

It would be neat if we could get years/months for these.  I'd love to get
them in chronological order.

- Important decisions regarding the file format and the useage of LDraw

The DAT format hasn't really changed since James came up with it.  The
naming conventions have changed at least once.  Most of the other • additions
came from Paul and can be found by reading the version history of LDLite.

Good idea.

And then there's the whole BFC discussion...and licensing...and the JW
affair...

LOL ;-)

Hmm... making note of BFC and Licensing.

-Tim



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  Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
 
(...) I started working on it in June 96, at that time I had my own set of bricks all hardcoded into the program but a few months later (don't ask me when) I asked James if I could use his .DAT files in LeoCAD and converted them to my own format. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  RE: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
 
Wow this is long... (...) In late 1996 or early 1997, I asked James if he wanted to collaborate with me on a tutorial for a ThinkQuest entry. Turned out he was ineligible since he was 25 years old. He mentioned "Tim" as a possible partner, but I had (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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