POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Looking for POV-Ray 0.x : Re: Looking for POV-Ray 0.x Server Time
18 Apr 2024 00:47:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Looking for POV-Ray 0.x  
From: Alain Martel
Date: 21 May 2021 12:27:32
Message: <60a7df74$1@news.povray.org>


> This helps actually, I ran a search for PvRay and found a copy for Macintosh on
> an old CD-ROM uploaded to the Internet Archive:
> https://archive.org/details/MacintoshMania1
> Unfortunately I don't know what to do with it as I don't have a Macintosh. I was
> able to browse the contents of the CD on my Linux machine but all the
> executables (?) are reported as zero byte files. Regular text files display
> properly though.
> 

An application for a Macintosh from that time would not run on any 
current Mac. They probably date from before the Power PC chip found in 
the earlier iMac, and would probably don't work even on those.

So, get the source code, if you can, and try to compile on your Linux 
machine.


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