POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ahhh, memories.... : Re: HAM had a different meaning back then, too Server Time
5 Sep 2024 15:24:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: HAM had a different meaning back then, too  
From: Invisible
Date: 22 Oct 2009 06:21:04
Message: <4ae03210@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> TC wrote:
>> Remember the "Hold-and-Modify" mode of the Amiga? Remind me, did 
>> PovRay make use of it, back then?
> 
> Off the top of my head... no.
> 
> I think it could show the preview in 256 colour mode, but all output 
> files were basically 24-bit colour, and you had to use a 3rd party 
> program to convert this to something the Amiga's hardware could display. 
> (DPaint will do it quite happily - except that I'm not 100% sure POV-Ray 
> supported IFF ILBM. Might have been only TARGA or something - in which 
> case you'd need PPaint.)

textures.pov - 40 minutes at 320x240 pixels with no AA. Ah, those were 
the days... :-}


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