Here is Makehuman 0.8 (not Alpha8) from 2001, running on Win98 across a Samba connection to a Knoppix server, using mjpegtools. This is Blender 2.42a for Windows. Irfan view for the screen capture. Works, all in all!


and here is the video:
http://youtu.be/GiJ-tqQ-xeg