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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Latest version of QRT..?
Keywords: QRT under VMS
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Date: 21 Oct 90 10:23:28 GMT
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skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes:

> In article <2171@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> niobium@arrakis.nevada.edu (Christopher W
> >
> >Quick request...
> >
> >If anybody has got exectuables for the latest version of the QRT raytracer
> >(QRT itself, and QRTpost or RAY2 if they've changed lately) or knows where
> >I might pick them up, PLEASE contact me, as I'm in dire need.
> 
>      This summer I ported the QRT raytracer to VAX/VMS systems.  It would
> not initially run under VAXC because of a couple of differences in the VAXC
> language commands.  It works now however (the redoubtable Marc Barrett tested
> it for me).  I also added an include file which allows it to do UNIX style
> I/O redirection under VAX/VMS, it's really slick, I wish I could say that
> I'd written it.  I sent some mail to Steve Koren about it, he said he hadn't
> done any work on it in over a year but that he might pick it up again some
> day.  I even uploaded a copy of it to one of the ftp sights, though I don't
> remember where right now.
>      Marc said that a single frame usually took about three days on his A500
> but the same frame only took about twenty to twenty five minutes on a VAX 662
> (depending on the loading), I can vouch for the last benchamrk.  I havn't tri
> running it on my A3000 yet.  Mark even produced a little movie with it I thin
> The primary reason for the port was just to get the execution speed up.
>      I'll go ahead and post it to a bunch of ftp sights and then leave mail
> about it when I finish.
> 
>                                    --George

Could I have this? Could you put it on abcfd20 in the /incoming/vms dir? 
I'd like to run it on a VAX 8820 and 6840. I don't know if it'll fair muh 
better than my 68030 though. (You got -MB- to test it for you?!

-Joseph Hillenburg

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