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Paul?
by Richard 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hey, did Paul get CVS access? Paul, were you able to compile the branch with VC++ 2005 Express? I did put some tweaks in there to get everything to compile with no warnings on the Express edition. I haven't put a copy of VS.NET 2003 Academic Edition in the mail for you yet, but its coming... -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

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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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Mouse support in Fractint for Windows
by Jonathan Osuch 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Rich, Take a look at Frame.c. The mouse code works much better now. It does have a problem with not moving far enough, but it at least moves in the right directions. Jonathan

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Paul online yet?
by Richard 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Paul, did you get some sort of system for looking at the code yet? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

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Out of memory errors
by Jonathan Osuch 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Rich, At the default image, pressing either o (for orbits) or the space bar gives an out of memory error in editpal.c. Which, makes no sense, since we shouldn't be anywhere near editpal.c. Also, I tried loading an image (using the 3 key) to make a 3-d image and ended up stuck in a loop. Jonathan

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Re: Xfractint version in realdos.c
by Richard 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

In article <1174855092.3938.6.camel(a)linux.site>, Jonathan Osuch <osuchj(a)avalon.net> writes: > While browsing through the Fractint for Windows source, I noticed that > you have the Xfractint version as 3.04. I don't recall the exact date, > but we have had the same versions numbers on Xfractint and Fractint for > many years now. If there are two places where the version is being tracked, the second one should just be eliminated. With this branch, the Xfractint code is more like the Windows code than ever before. Most, if not all, of the #ifdef XFRACT stuff should go away. But it won't go away until I've finished the X11 driver, which won't be until later. At this point the branch compile xfractint, but it won't do anything useful. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

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Color cicling
by marcusadriana 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

I noticed that there is a big difference (for worse) between the color cicling when using the new 20.99.4 compared to the old 20.04p04. Try the par file below, for instance das0009 { ; nice colours 3 ; Fractint Version 2099 Patchlevel 8 reset=2099 type=mandel center-mag=-1.47456111219494420/-0.00000004201384920/3.833338e+010/0.75 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=100000 inside=0 cyclerange=0/255 colors=5Zm5Ur5Px<3>5Ed5B`58W56R53M000000000b`c<4>lornru<9>YWPWUMVRI<3>OI\ 5<3>YRD`TFbWH<3>kcPneRpgT<3>zpa<4>jdWgaVcZT<3>ROPOLOKJN<2>AAK000000A3M<5\ >O9dQAgSBj<3>`Fw<3>J_cEdZAjU5oP<4>3SH2OF2JE<3>007000000000A00<4>O00Q00T0\ 0<3>c00<10>L00J00H00<3>A00000<3>000_MD<3>kc7nh6qm5<2>zz0<3>mm5jj6gg7dd8`\ `9YYA<3>RMEQJGOGHMDIKAJMAKOAM<3>_LKbOJeQJ<3>qaHtdGwfGziF<4>jWEgUEdRD<3>T\ GDQEDNBCK8C413000<3>EFAIIDLLG<4>ccWgfZkja<3>zyn<9>e`UcZSaWQ<3>UMH0000000\ 0053M<4>5Dc5Ff5Hj<3>5Px<3>5hc5mZ5rU5wP<3>5ch } Is there an explanation? Marcus BullGuard Anti-virus has scanned this e-mail and found it clean. Try BullGuard for free: www.bullguard.com

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Last winfract patch
by marcusadriana 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Where can i download the newest Winfract patch? Thanks Marcus BullGuard Anti-virus has scanned this e-mail and found it clean. Try BullGuard for free: www.bullguard.com

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text mode color editing (debugflag=3000 '~')
by Richard 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

I'm not sure what good it does, but I added support back for this in the branch. It was commented out before. Now I'm trying to get the autosave and mouse support back. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

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Palette Editor in Fractint for Windows
by Jonathan Osuch 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Rich, If you start with the default Mandelbrot with maxit=150, and open the palette editor using 'e', when you scroll around the image with the cursor key you get some palette entries that exceed 255. Theoretically, with maxit=150, you shouldn't see any palette entries that exceed 150. I know, truecolor doesn't care about palettes, but for some features to work, the simulation of a palette has to be accurate. As an aside, to avoid this problem, Xfractint currently doesn't show the palette editor when you are using a truecolor mode. If there is a problem with the getcolor() routine returning a value in the appropriate range, this will also confuse boundary tracing. Jonathan

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