Sabrina Kilian wrote:

> I found a website that archived old CD distributions of even older BBS
> software sites. Digging through some of them, there was DKBTrace 2.12
> and POV-Ray 1.0 for the A4000. The source code was so compact back then!

I *ran* POV-Ray on an A1200. (In fact, I probably still have it set up.)

You remember textures1.pov? The demo file that renders half a dozen 
cylinders with different textures from textures.inc? That took about an 
hour at 640x480 without AA. (Off the top of my head, anyway.) This on an 
Amiga 1200 with an accelerator card (i.e., running with a faster CPU 
than stock, and with an *FPU* as well).

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Invisible wrote:
> TC wrote:
>> Remember the "Hold-and-Modify" mode of the Amiga? Remind me, did 
>> PovRay make use of it, back then?
> 
> Off the top of my head... no.
> 
> I think it could show the preview in 256 colour mode, but all output 
> files were basically 24-bit colour, and you had to use a 3rd party 
> program to convert this to something the Amiga's hardware could display. 
> (DPaint will do it quite happily - except that I'm not 100% sure POV-Ray 
> supported IFF ILBM. Might have been only TARGA or something - in which 
> case you'd need PPaint.)

textures.pov - 40 minutes at 320x240 pixels with no AA. Ah, those were 
the days... :-}

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