My problem, is that with a separate reboot to MS-DOS, I get a screen which is 75%
black, with a truncated and warped band across the top.  The same thing occurs
with a typical Win98 execution.

Just what is a person supposed to download?  The POVLAB page offers a bunch of
confusing things. There's like a basic version-- implied incomplete,  an updated
patch which isn't clearly for the basic version, and a button which brings up an
Excite search of a hundred places to find it, some with dates a few years old!

Psychomek wrote:

> 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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