Remember the "Hold-and-Modify" mode of the Amiga? Remind me, did PovRay make 
use of it, back then?

(For the young ones out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_And_Modify )

"Mike Raiford" <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:4a8c57fb@news.povray.org...
> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>
>> 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!
>
> Hehe, my first encounter with Pov-Ray was when it was known as PVRay, it 
> was a beta version, 0.9b. It prompted me to write a program that would 
> basically stripe R G and B on the screen, so I could see the images in 
> their full color. I eventually found a paint program that would convert 
> TGA to GIF, then eventually begged my dad for an ET4000-based card with 24 
> bit color.  I remember waiting hours on my 386-SX for sunset.pov to 
> complete, Suffice to say, SKYVASE took a loooong time to trace.
>
> -- 
> ~Mike

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