POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ahhh, memories.... : Re: Ahhh, memories.... Server Time
5 Sep 2024 09:20:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ahhh, memories....  
From: Sabrina Kilian
Date: 19 Aug 2009 15:41:45
Message: <4a8c5579$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford wrote:
> From
> ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Old-Versions/Official-3.0/news.3.01.txt
> 
>> There are other changes planed for 3.1 that we are sure you will
>> appreciate and they will not hurt backward compatibility.  We are not
>> yet ready say what new features will be added for 3.1 but we will try
>> to keep the list short for this minor upgrade.  In parallel with 3.1
>> work we are going to start development on 4.0 which will probably involve
>> a total revision of the code from C to C++.  Don't look for that release
>> until 1998 or later.
> 
> Ahh, remember 3.0, back in the days of Halo and Atmosphere. Back when
> POVRay still had a DOS release. Those were such optimistic times!
> 

I found a website that archived old CD distributions of even older BBS
software sites. Digging through some of them, there was DKBTrace 2.12
and POV-Ray 1.0 for the A4000. The source code was so compact back then!


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