POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Robot Lightning Chess : Re: Robot Lightning Chess Server Time
11 Oct 2025 00:12:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Robot Lightning Chess  
From: Clarence1898
Date: 5 Oct 2025 19:25:00
Message: <web.68e2fd4ea59922d68db55336e0accf30@news.povray.org>
"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> >  Still I would like
> > to know how everyone does their rendering.
>
> I use Raspberry Pis for it.
> One is my standard computer for all days work, and another I turn on when I have
> long movies to render.
> Connection via SSH or virtual desktop.
> That they need 1 or 2 days for a 2000 frames HD Moon- or Mars-Video doesnt
> matter to me.
>
> Pis are cheap, small, silent, energy-efficient.
> And when there is nothing to render, you can use it as Media-Server or anything
> else.
>
> ma

Yes the Pi is a very nice machine.  I run Hercules, an IBM mainframe emulator on
a pi 5.  More ram, aux storage, and faster than the 3081 I worked on in the
1980's.


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