In article <3817E92F.101A4F54@t-online.de> , "christof.schuler" 
<chr### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:

> I'm working for a few weeks now with povray 3.1 and it seems to be
> really good. But I do not know exact: Is this version really the newest
> one ? If you look at povray.org most links are from the years 1995 or
> 1996 and it is for windows 3.1.

Hmm, if you are looking at some of the older link pages, yes you can find
links to pages that old.  This of course does not go for
www.povray.org/links/ which is very new.
As for POV-Ray itself, if you look at the FTP server you can see the actual
date when the archive (for the Win version) has been up dated: "Tue Jul  6
23:54:00 1999" (see below). If you look into the documentation (not
somewhere at the end, at the *top*), you will find that it has last been
updated "May 1999".   Besides that, doesn't the splash screen say something
like "Copyright 1999"?

And if you are refering to a Windows 3.1 version of POV-Ray, yes, the last
Windows GUI version of POV-Ray that supports WIndows 3.1 is POV-Ray 3.02.

> There are even links to meshes from
> airplanes, cars .. but as I see not for povray but for 3dstudio. Is
> there still a development for povray or is povray perhaps used in
> another (actual, freeware) raytracer ?

Are you sure you are looking at pages still linked on http://www.povray.org?
:-)  Some search engines turn up some 'very old' pages on povray.org, like
the 1998 betatest of POV-Ray 3.1...


At ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Official/Windows/ you will find:

Current directory is /pub/povray/Official/Windows

Up to higher level directory
  3.1g-1/                      Sun Jul 11 11:18:00 1999 Directory
  HEADER.html   1 Kb      Fri Aug 20 11:06:00 1999 Hypertext Markup Language
  README        1 Kb      Tue Jul  6 23:57:00 1999
  README.WIN31  505 bytes Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 1998
  povwin3.exe  5081 Kb    Tue Jul  6 23:54:00 1999
  povwin_s.zip 1438 Kb    Sat Aug 28 11:41:00 1999 application/zip
  pve-vc6.zip   726 Kb    Wed Jul  7 09:04:00 1999 application/zip



     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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