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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
news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHDFDCEBAEBDDLAA.bram@cwru.edu...
> 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. (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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