Brian McGuinness <mcg### [at] fduedu> wrote:

> I get the impression that the Mac binary for POV-Ray is for Power PC
> systems, an I have an Intel-based Mac, so I presume that I should get one
> of the POV-Ray sources and compile it on my system.  But should I use the
> Mac sources or the Unix sources?  I have X11 installed, should that be
> required.  My GCC version is i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1.
Like Thorsten said, it will run on Intel based systems but Rosetta was
not designed to run an application like POV-Ray.
It is very slow.
You can compile a command line version yourself but you could also use
MegaPOV which is a new universal binary which will run very fast on
Intel-based or PPC based Macintosh computers.
And it has a nice GUI (editor, templates) as well.

You can find it at:
http://megapov.inetart.net
Go to the download page and search for the Mac section.

> Any advice would be appreciated as I am new to Macs and am learning my way
> around.  I have been using Fedora Core and have run POV-Ray there and on a
> Windows box.  I don't mind using a command-line-only version of POV-Ray if
> necessary.
Not necessary ;-)

Yvo 


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