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(...) Cool video. Jeff (16 years ago, 20-Nov-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.animation)
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(...) Any idea when these sets will be added to the LUGNET set database? Eric (16 years ago, 19-Nov-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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The first virtual fashion show. Spring/Summer 3001. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is a fashion designer known as JC/DC in the fashion world. His official website : (URL) LEGO style. (URL) Made a CGI LEGO video link below: Intro. Video: (33 seconds) (...) (16 years ago, 18-Nov-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.animation)
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(...) The Creator sets in question are showing up on the TRU website but not yet on LEGO's site. Here are the links: Creator Propeller Power (URL) Creator Street Speeder (URL) -Jordan Schwarz (16 years ago, 17-Nov-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Just thought others might appreciate these. The pics of the gummy bricks attached to real bricks are especially nice. (URL) (16 years ago, 17-Nov-08, to lugnet.general)
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What a colossal screw up! The oldest, most comprehensive LEGO-wiki, (URL) BrickWiki> somehow did not have an Eurobricks article! I have (URL) posted about it> on the new (URL) BrickWiki Blog> and asked for two things: help on creating an accurate EB (...) (16 years ago, 16-Nov-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I stopped at TRU in Cool Springs (Nashville), TN area and found the following Pirates sets and prices: 6239 Cannon Battle $5.99 6240 Kracken Attackin' $9.99 6241 Loot Island $19.99 6253 Shipwreck Hideout $39.99 Note that 6253 appears to be a (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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I dropped by a Toys-R-Us this morning in VA and saw several new Pirates sets and two new Creator sets that up to now I have only seen in leaked catalog scans on Brickshelf. I don't remember the exact names/numbers for the Pirates, but they had the (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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We all know how TLG always includes instructions to build two different main models in their Technic range. How about if they don't tell people what the secondary model is on the box? IOW, you would only find out what the second model was after you (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Compiling pre-existing code with the latest Visual C++ won't introduce the .NET framework into an app. The app would have to be rewritten to use .NET in order to get a .NET dependency in, so that's not an issue. Apps compiled with Visual (...) (16 years ago, 12-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) (URL) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) One particular enhancement I'd like is better track height and slope management. I'd like to be able to set each individual track piece end height to the nearest 1/6 of a plate height. My layout has many track pieces at non-integer plate (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Although Mono make it possible to run .NET application over Linux (without wine), currently Mono fully support only .NET version 2 while microsoft already have .NET 3.x and .NET 4 comming soon if not already available. Mono will always be (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) My understanding is that the new Wine supports the .NET framework using MONO (open source implementation of nearly all of .NET). I think it is older programs, and game-like programs (like LEGO's designer) that it has trouble with. -Chris Gray (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) It is indeed written using MFC, which it makes extensive use of for the GUI. Porting it to another platform would take considerable effort. I think what I'm going to do first is get the source code into a package I can release (and archive!) (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) What about (URL) BlueBrick>, as discussed in (URL) #3>? Might be good to coordinate efforts. Benn (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) If Matt or someonelse rewrite the code (open sourced or not) I would suggest to use a framework that is available to most of the OS like Qt or GTk. That way it would be really easy to port to all OS not just the most known. Wine is working (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Given the reports that its using MFC, it would be easier to rewrite a new version from scratch than to port the existing one. (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) For me, the great think about Track Designer is that it runs just fine under the Wine Windows emulator. I've used it that way under my X86-64 Linux machine for several layouts, including working on NALUG layouts for train shows. I've never (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Open the source code! My guess is that's the best thing which can be done. Set up a open source project, and even if nobody contributes immediately, maybe a day... and of course you can still develop it (and the source code will never be lost (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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