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Re: LEGO Brick Masters Launches!
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lugnet.lego
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Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:56:21 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Rocco J. Carello wrote:
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Unfortunately, I get the impression that LEGO’s programmers are using a very
proprietary tool such as Microsoft Visual C++, and so they are stuck
releasing Windows-only software. That is why I suggested getting some
programers who are more flexible.
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As an aside:
TLC seems to have their computer systems deeply rooted in Microsoft’s
proprietary technology where there are more open solutions available that
would serve them just as well. Even the shop.lego.com website is written in
ASP. That is a shame, for it could be done just as well in PHP and then TLC
wouldn’t be locked into Microsoft’s grip. This Microsoft mentality does hurt
them. Look at the mosiac maker they had. It required computers running
Windows. The same thing could have easily been done with server-side Java,
PHP, or Perl and worked for everybody. (In fact, I know some people have
written their own mosiac makers in Perl) It would not have cost TLC more to
develop the site or mosiac maker with something else, and it would have
opened up room for more potential sales.
Tis folly, I say.
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The real irony is that LDD was not even written by developers at Lego, it was
outsourced to a company called Qube Software who have
the release blurb here which states: LDD uses a sophisticated, skinable GUI built on Q’s layer
API LDD ships on Q1.0
based on their cross platform Q Engine
that can run on Windows, Linux,
X-Box and PS2 platforms.
-Rob A>
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| (...) Which begs the question... is linux support that much different than OS-X BSD ? Perhaps it is, but I suspect that the differences might be less than between Windows and OS-X. Ray (21 years ago, 29-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) I believe Apple sells about 2-5% of all personal computers in the world. However, people tend to keep Apple computers longer than people will keep the average x86 box, so the percentage of actual Mac users is higher than their marketshare. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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