POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Back to the future : Re: Back to the future Server Time
7 Sep 2024 05:10:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Back to the future  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 22 Jul 2008 08:47:34
Message: <4885d6e6$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> 
> And I'm sure if you pay even more money, you can get better specs. 
> Predator was released years earlier and featured some impressive 
> computer graphics; that computer had to come form somewhere. But 
> certainly you wouldn't find one in somebody's *house*!
> 

What amazes me about the Amiga is how frequently it was used for digital 
effects in a number of TV shows. I just skimmed the Wikipedia article. I 
guess at some point they were running Lightwave, which is a very 
expensive professional rendering package, on it.


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