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Adrien Beau wrote:
> Ron Parker wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 02:06:34 -0500, Bob H. wrote:
> > >"extract" an e-mail from your Amiga? You make it sound painful. Thanks
> > >from me.
> >
> > It probably was painful. It's not as though most Amigas have ethernet
> > interfaces, and the standard disk format is unreadable on a DOS machine,
> > so it would require a little effort.
>
> IIRC, Amiga could read and write DOS floppies (720 KB).
> Perhaps not shipped by default, though.
>
> I think the painful part was to reach the Amiga under the
> pile of debris in the back of the garage, then search which
> of the 5462 floppies contained that damn file.
The painful part is that the Amiga had two hard disks - the boot disk and the
work disk. The boot disk was corrupted and was giving frequent read/write
errors. I was only able to boot it by powering on and off and hitting cancel
on all the warning windows. It would only work once in every 20 times or so.
The second painful thing was that I couldn't find the Amiga keyboard so all I
had at my disposal was a mouse. I had to find a program that could read and
display a text file. This program had to work entirely with the mouse and
require no keyboard input. My word processor would normally work except that
the Amiga booted into hi-res mode and used up too much Chip memory for the word
processor to run. Other programs couldn't see the Work: drive. My IBM file
writing utilities required that I type in di0: which I couldn't do without a
keyboard. I was finally able to get PKZip to find and display the file. I
then typed it into my IBM laptop. Not elegant, but it worked. This is why I
said it was a painful extraction.
David
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"Tony[B]" wrote:
> Thank God they chose "POV-Ray"! :)
We all liked POV-Ray. We all agreed it was better than the original
name.
David
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> A good name would mean that you could say it to someone else and then they'd
> know how to spell it. But with POV-Ray there isn't even agreement on how
> it's pronounced. Pee-oh-vee-ray sounds dumb and has to be pronounced a bit
> slowly to be clear. Pov-ray sounds like a bit like power-ray and will lead
> to confusion too.
I pronounce it "pov ray" where the "o" makes a sound like the o in dog. I never
cared for Pee-oh-vee-ray.
David Buck
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This is really something. Thanks for sharing, and thanks
for POV.
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Cheers
Steve email mailto:ste### [at] zeropps uklinuxnet
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
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in news:3B8B21E7.6AE102F7@simberon.com David Buck wrote:
> For those who are interested, I've been able to extract from my Amiga
> the original e-mail I sent to CompuServe that started off the POV-Ray
> project.
I'll put in in the docs, if you permit.
Thanks,
Ingo
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Photography: http://members.home.nl/ingoogni/
Pov-Ray : http://members.home.nl/seed7/
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ingo wrote:
> in news:3B8B21E7.6AE102F7@simberon.com David Buck wrote:
>
> > For those who are interested, I've been able to extract from my Amiga
> > the original e-mail I sent to CompuServe that started off the POV-Ray
> > project.
>
> I'll put in in the docs, if you permit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
That's why I posted it. Go ahead.
David Buck
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From: Alberto
Subject: Re: POV-Ray Origins - the original creation message
Date: 28 Aug 2001 14:32:11
Message: <3B8BE329.8F8207A7@usb.ve>
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David Buck wrote:
>
>...
Beautiful piece of history about POV-Ray.
>
> If you decide to do this, I would like to place a few rules on the
> packages (or at least those developed from DKB):
>
> - they will remain freely distributable
> - support and maintenance of this new product will be undertaken by
> the STAR team (including but not limited to myself)
> - the programs will remain as portable as possible
>
> What do you think of this proposal?
>
>
> David Buck
It's nice to see how this fundamental rules remained in time.
To me it was hard to find POV-Ray. Soon after version 3 was released I
discovered it because Roman Maeder, one of the creators of the Mathematica
package, rendered some polyhedra with POV-Ray and there was a link to
povray.org. To my greatest joy a version for the mac operating system was also
available. Nowadays this situation has changed drastically. If you go to Google
and ask for ray tracing, the first entry of the search is the internet ray
tracing competition.
Alberto.
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"David Buck" wrote:
> I pronounce it "pov ray" where the "o" makes a sound like
> the o in dog. I never cared for Pee-oh-vee-ray.
Same here.
[ You hear all you who say pee-oh-vee-ray ? You've got it wrong! ]
;)
Rune
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3D images and anims, include files, tutorials and more:
Rune's World: http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk (updated June 26)
POV-Ray Users: http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk/povrayusers/
POV-Ray Webring: http://webring.povray.co.uk
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From: Andy Cocker
Subject: Re: POV-Ray Origins - the original creation message
Date: 28 Aug 2001 19:59:37
Message: <3b8c3069@news.povray.org>
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If you will allow me a moment of childish stupidity.. isn't the origin of
POV-Ray <0,0,0>? (...ouch!)
Andy Cocker
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"Andy Cocker" <big### [at] mariner9fsnetcouk> wrote in message
news:3b8c3069@news.povray.org...
> If you will allow me a moment of childish stupidity.. isn't the origin of
> POV-Ray <0,0,0>? (...ouch!)
>
> Andy Cocker
>
You know you've been ray-tracing too long when . . . ;)
--
Y
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