Tim Wegner wrote:
Looks like my symptoms may not have anything to do with the virtual screens.
1. Start fractint 2. press <del> 3. Select 640x480 SVGA mode (SF5) Default Mandelbrot generates OK 4. Press ESC.
The text screen is garbled, looks like this: reverse thru history <ctl-h> quit FRACTINT <esc> OPTIONS restart FRACTINT <ins> basic options... <x> COLORS extended options... <y> color cycling mode <c> type-specific parms... <z> rotate palette <+>, <-> view window options... <v> palette editing mode <e> browse parms... <ctl-b> make starfield <a> evolver parms... <ctl-e> ant automaton <ctl-a> sound parms... <ctl-f> stereogram <ctl-s>
Use the cursor keys to highlight your selection Press ENTER for highlighted choice, or F1 for help
With some garbage below. Notice that the top of the text screen does not show.
Try it now. I still can't reproduce your problem, but I did fix something that could have been causing it. Jonathan