Am 18.12.2013 17:56, schrieb Fractracer:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 18.12.2013 14:21, schrieb Fractracer:
>>> Paolo Gibellini <p.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>>> Just discovered:
>>>> http://10print.org/
>>>> A great book. Perhaps a bit old-fashioned, but very inspirational.
>>>> Paolo
>>>
>>> Remind me my first attempt with Amstrad Cpc 464, oldies but goodies.
>>
>> Yeah - CPC rules! Z80 power!
>
> Running Povray on this oldies must be a calvary.

More like a no-go I suppose. The CPC 464 had 64K of RAM, of which 16K 
were dedicated to the display. Might have sufficed for a RSOCP or two, 
but I wouldn't expect anything more :-P

The CPC 6128 was a bit better off, with its 128K of RAM; with the 
software tucked into a 16K EPROM (or a bunch of them if need be; IIRC 
the CPC series were designed to address up to 252 of them, one of which 
was the inbuilt ROM BASIC) it might have actually been able to do 
something. (Not at any significant speed of course; we're talking about 
an 8-bit processor running at 4 MHz, and no math coprocessor anywhere near.)

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