At 09:31 PM 5/20/2018, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: >For a while I have collected bits of legacy CAD, most recently >Martin Hepperle sent me what I believe is the last version of >Hank Christianson's MOVIE.BYU, a FORTRAN based 3D modeling and animation >system.
I supported MovieBYU 3D object import/export in my 3D conversion tool, InterChange. Although it didn't have any commercial appeal, it did impress the BYU grads at Viewpoint Datalabs. I look forward to seeing more emulated and virtual machine recreations of old software situations. You should be able to run an old environment easily on a desktop or even in a web browser. I think they're educational for students of today and tomorrow. Is that MovieBYU code on the web somewhere? At 06:37 PM 5/22/2018, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > "The BRL-CAD source code repository is the oldest known public > version-controlled codebase in the world that's still under active > development, dating back to 1983-12-16 00:10:31." >[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD ] > >I could not verify this claim, because I could not load SourceForge >page before my patience ran out (thank you, Javascript, I guess). I remember ordering BRL-CAD source and manuals, perhaps directly from them in the late 1980s. It was massive even back then. - John
