Just discovered:
http://10print.org/
A great book. Perhaps a bit old-fashioned, but very inspirational.
Paolo

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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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On 18/12/13 21:59, clipka wrote:
[...]
> 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.)

I raytraced on the BBC Micro back in 1989 --- 32kB RAM, of which 20kB
was the screen (in high colour mode), and a 6502 running at 2MHz. I
forget the details but I suspect that the ray tracer itself was in
Basic. Unfortunately it's not online, but the cover of the issue of
Acorn User with the program in it is here:

http://www.acornuser.com/acornuser/year8/issue82.jpeg

What you'll actually have *got* was a checkerboard plane with a single
mirror sphere floating above it. Resolution was probably 256x256, if you
were lucky. That would be an overnight render...

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Paolo Gibellini <p.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Just discovered:
> http://10print.org/
> A great book. Perhaps a bit old-fashioned, but very inspirational.
> Paolo

funnily enough, Nick Montfort is a guy I know from the interactive fiction
scene...

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