Hi Tim,
The problem is that WINFRACT is a 16 bit application and using my old
Borland C++ compiler, I could build the application from the WINFRACT
source with only a few modifications to the source. Now when I use my
MS 32 bit compiler, I get up to 700 error / warning messages per c file
and this makes it hard to do any serious port of the Fractint code.
Manpwin has been a painful extraction of modest lumps of FRACTINT code
and incorporating it into the basic graphics kernel I developed for
another product, PGV. The true colour bits are fine but the wonderful
functionality in FRACTINT is so difficult to compile and link in
without tedious editing line by lien to remove the error/warning
messages. There's just too much code.
I was hoping that a couple of #defines would substantially reduce the
errors so that I could get a major port done.
Turner Rentz treyr(a)atr.net was working towards a windows NT port of
Fractint 19.6 but has hit the same wall as me.
I love FRACTINT but it's too limited colour wise for me to use
regularly. It's time for a port.
Help required please.
Many thanks,
Paul.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Wegner <twegner(a)swbell.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 11:45 am
Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Fractint and Win XP
> Paul asked:
>
> > Are we ready to port FRACTINT to Windows yet? All I need is some
> > help
> > to write header files so that I can compile the substantial
> Fractint
> > code with MS visual C++ v4.0. The basic windows code already
> works with
> > MANPWin.
>
> I am a little unclear what you are proposing. How is this proposed
> Windows port different from manpwin? Is this a more inclusive
> literal
> port like Winfract, which was nearly full featured?
>
> Tim
>
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Tim,
I installed Fractint on an HP laptop running XP today and had no problems.
All the video resolutions I tried worked. Created a short cut to the
executable and set the properties the same as for any other Windows version.
Jonathan
