Rudy Velthuis wrote:

> Greg M. Johnson schrieb in Nachricht <36a118c7.0@news.povray.org>...
> >Has anyone gotten POVLAB to work under Win 98?
> >
> >The documentation says:
> >
> >                - Be sure not to run Windows 3.x or 95, or for Windows
> >95,
> >                boot for a full DOS session (POVLAB can run under
> >Windows

> >
> >
> >A restart to DOS didn't help me.  Any pointers?
>
> I'm still using Win95 (first issue), with IE40, but it works pretty well in
> a DOS-box. I see no reason why it wouldn't work in a Win98 DOS box. I know
> the dos4gw DPMI loader can be troublesome sometimes, but I had no problem
> whatsoever. I would try Win98, but Win98 ruins my ISDN setup, so I'm still
> on Win95. Only one thing: the "Path To Raytracer" should be in 8.3 format
> (something similar to "E:\POV-RA~1\BIN\PVENGINE.EXE"). No difficulties
> otherwise.
>
> People are trying to port POV-Lab it to other OSes, so perhaps there will
> also be a Win32 version once (POV-Lab is Open Source now).
>
> --
> Rudy Velthuis

I have Gotten the shareware version to run on Win98 it actually runs very
well.  although on occasion i do run into the built-in limitations....   but
that is to be expected for shareware.

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