April 2006 - Fractdev - mailman.xmission.com

Athlon woes
by Tim Wegner 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

I built a computer last year using an Athlon with a Gigabyte motherboard. I had troubles with Fractint - with any SVGA mode the computer would hang after the completion of the image. I always assumed this was an Windows XP issue. Today I tried Fractint with freedos on the same computer, with the same results. So apparently it's an incompatability bgetween fractint and my compuiter. Truecolor, 320x200, diskvideo, and even tweaked modes work. SCGA modes fail, and only after the image completes. This behavior appears to have nothing to do with recent versions. Has anyone else had trouble with Athlon? Hmm, maybe I need to look at bios settings. Tim

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Fractint for Windows status
by Jonathan Osuch 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Tim, I've managed to get WinFract, combined with the latest sources, to compile and link. There are still some warning messages that I should fix. The bad news is that it crashes with a GPF. With luck, it will run after I fix all the warnings. I haven't looked at the menus and help files yet. Jonathan

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Yes !!!
by marcusadriana 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Ok, I tried that and observed a huge difference in speed in the Winfract 20. However, trying Frothbasin zoom in you can still detect a non-neglet difference in speed pro Paul´s developing version. Thanks Marcus > 2. I was decived by the speed in Jonathan´s the new Winfract although it has > all the Fractint´s types of fractals. What do you mean by item 2? If you turn off the pixel-by-pixel update, it is fairly quick.

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Fractint for Windows
by marcusadriana 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

I have the old Winfract 18.21 that takes lesser time to draw the fractals as compared with the new Fractint 20.xxxx in my XP, but IT IS an obsolete software. 1. I was amazed of Paul´s http://www.deleeuw.com.au/download/SetupManpWIN.exe that is very, very rapid, but was disappointed by the small number of types of fractals available and color changes dificulties. (He says he used the old Winfract routines). 2. The other way, I was decived by the speed in Jonathan´s the new Winfract although it has all the Fractint´s types of fractals. I know that I will aways be a fervorous fan of Fractint, an almost 20 years of fidelity, but newer and newer Windows are making it slower. As I cannot even think in contributing in any programing, I humbly subject the proposition of "linking" the speed achieved by Paul´s with the Winfract friendly status bar of Jonathan´s, including his complete fractal types, as much as Fractint´s. Thanks Marcus Rezende

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Disk Video display screen
by Lee H. Skinner 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Jonathan, Could you please add 1 more item to the status display screen of the disk video mode? I would like to see the savename displayed, because when running a batch file of a bunch of fractals to be generated, you don't know which one is being generated. Although, as I'm typing this, I realize that I can hit the <esc> key and see the savename, so I guess this would fall under the "nice" but not "necessary" category of features. Lee

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XFractint with XCurses
by Jean-Pierre Demailly 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi: I am not sure whether you attempted to compile xfractint with the PDCurses/XCurses library rather than with ncurses (XCurses is a XWindow replacement for ncurses, which allows to get a native X application without changing the curses source code). PDCurses-2.8 has just been released. It turns out that xfractint-20.04p04 compiles OK and even runs almost OK when linked with XCurses-2.8 ; I only noticed keyboard focus problems that would probably require only a few minor tweaks. In this way, xfractint X integration could probably be substantially improved (without having to rework much of the code, or having to usemore advanced X toolkits). Best regards, Jean-Pierre Demailly

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