well not quite, but I want to install pov 3.1 onto a Mac LCII.

I have the binhex of the 68k version on my PC but its 6 megs so how do I get
it across to the Mac?

I somehow managed it before with the no-floating-point-version by splitting
the binhex file into six 1 meg chunks in textpad on the PC, saving them as
plain text, throwing them on floppy disks across to the mac and re-building
the binhex file in word (again saving as plain text) and miraculously
expanding it with stuffit expander to get a full working version of Pov.
then I got an FPU for it and want to install the FPU version, cos 10 million
hours is a long time to take to render skyvase...

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Jim

heres the specs for the LCII:

68020 CPU @ 16Mhz
68888 FPU @ 32MHz
1 Gb Hardisk
10 Mb RAM
No networking/modem

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In article <3c154177@news.povray.org> , "James Taylor" 
<jam### [at] jamestaylorfsworldcouk> wrote:

> well not quite, but I want to install pov 3.1 onto a Mac LCII.
>
> I have the binhex of the 68k version on my PC but its 6 megs so how do I get
> it across to the Mac?

Well, if you have a PC with SCSI adapter and any external SCSI drive you
could just attach it and as long as it is a DOS formatted drive with a FAT16
file system it should work.  Or you find some old SCSI external CD-ROM
drives, which will work fine if your PC has a CD writer.

Another option would be to use a serial connection.  On the Mac you need a
FTP server on a serial port of the Mac (i.e. NetPresenz).  You can then
simply use a null modem cable and an FTP client on the PC.  Of course both
computers need to be configured to connect to the internet via a serial port
and *without* PPP!  This is probably the most versatile and simplest
solution as you can get a proper cable serial for just a few dollars and you
can use it to transfer files easily in both directions.

Of course you can still use the method you used before, but somehow I think
that isn't what you were up for.  Anyway, maybe you are not aware of it, but
StuffIt is available for PCs as well.  DropStuff is available as well also I
don't know if its free version for PCs can split files.  Of course as the
download is free, this is the least extensive way to try.


However, I don't see a point in running POV-Ray 3.1 on such an underpowered
system (it barely has enough memory).  I think POV-Ray 2.2, which can still
be found on the web, came in disk size parts and will be much easier to
transfer.


    Thorsten


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Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg

I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
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In article <3c165340@news.povray.org>, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

>However, I don't see a point in running POV-Ray 3.1 on such an underpowered
>system (it barely has enough memory).

And you call yourself a mac user? :-)

I've got a PowerMac G3 with 192 Mb RAM here, running system 9.2.1, but I
still prefer to use my Performa 630 (20 Mb RAM, system 7.1.2) for most
things.

Might seem odd, but it feels like the work goes faster when I use the
Performa and POV-Ray 3.1 NonFPU to write the geometry, doing
thumbnail-sized previews when needed, and then shuttle it over to the G3
via LocalTalk and add the finishing touches there before rendering it.

Oh well. Back to work.
Tom Stone

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