Hi Tim, I do disagree because there is not a lot of benefit to just porting to WINDOWS. I already ahve a true colour version which works ok on 1/2 pass. This was also the motivation behind MANPWin. I think 32 bit and true colour are more urgent than getting functionality up to 20.2.4. It may be worth while (but dangerous) to keep winows stream separate from the LINUX stream but I am very reluctant to start a new branch if it is not required. Comments please. Thanks, PHD. ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul de Leeuw Computers Central Coast Australia Email: pdeleeuw@deleeuw.com.au www: <http://www.deleeuw.com.au> ABN 72 360 822 562 ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Wegner <twegner@swbell.net> Date: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:53 am Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Requst info on FRACTINT Variables for 8 bit to True colour conversion
I notice that the existing code assumes that color (+dstack and others) are all BYTE. For true colour to have any use, I need to pass a minimum of 16 bits around (32K maxiter) and this is a substantial change to FRACTINT code.
My opinion is that you should not try to simultaneously port Fractint to Win32 and also add truecolor support. I suggest you first port to Win32. If we had a Win32 version of Fractint with good performance and everything working, then we could REALLY start making changes and improvements, because we wouldn't need the DOS version any more. Then adding truecolor could be done more gracefully.
Of course you are free to disagree!
Tim
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