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Music fractals with Fractint
by Jonathan Osuch 16 Apr '22

16 Apr '22

Folks, I've been working on emulating the PC speaker with the SDL version and noticed that even though the documentation and prompts state that the orbit delay time is in milli-seconds, it is actually in tenths of a milli-second. Changing this will obviously throw off the timing of previously generated PAR files. I would prefer to not change the behaviour. Will need to change the docs. Any thoughts on this? Jonathan

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Re: Help! text file avalanche!
by Jonathan Osuch 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Bill, > Although I was sort of responsible for the ORBITSAVE=sound feature, I > haven't used it for years - since I was using it to be transformed into > midi files in the late 90's or early 2000's. Anyway, I was checking today > to see if it (fractint v 20.04.14) operated as expected, using DOSBox. It > seems to work fine - once I was able to locate where the txt file was > saved. However, I can't remember how to turn off the ORBITSAVE=sound from > the command line - even restarting via <ins> doesn't clear it from writing > the txt file. I shut down DOSBox and restarted it and fractint, then > generated the default mandelbrot. No sound parameters were invoked at all, > but still the SOUNDxxx.txt file was produced...empty, but still being made. How did you turn orbitsave=sound on? Put it in sstools.ini? Otherwise, shutting down DOSBox and restarting should have worked. > Can you refresh my memory as to how to turn this off? Do we need a command > line such as ORBITSAVE=off? I'm really not keen on generating a new .txt > file every time I use fractint<g>. Well, that's ugly. Ideally, you should be able to press <G> to bring up the prompt screen and then enter orbitsave=no to turn it off. However, the original orbitsave function was to cause IFS and LORENZ types to output an acrospin file. The orbitsave=sound feature commandeered the variable and provided no way to turn it off. I will fix it in the SDL version. Jonathan

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Re: Music fractals with Fractint
by Harold Lane 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Jonathan, My knee jerk response is to say to duplicate the Fractint's behavior in your SDL version, so existing files work correctly, but update the Fractint docs, as you suggested. And perhaps include a comment in the Fractint docs where the change/correction to them is made, adding something like, "The docs have always included an incorrect description, but now correctly describe Fractint's behavior. No changes to the behavior of Fractint have been made. Older files play correctly in both Fractint and FractSDL." (or something similar.) I'm a little tired right now, but wanted to reply -- is the above reasonable? Thanks for continuing your work on the SDL version of Fractint, Jonathan! - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane(a)earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Osuch <osuchj(a)mediacombb.net> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 8:57 AM To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Fractint] Music fractals with Fractint Folks, I've been working on emulating the PC speaker with the SDL version and noticed that even though the documentation and prompts state that the orbit delay time is in milli-seconds, it is actually in tenths of a milli-second. Changing this will obviously throw off the timing of previously generated PAR files. I would prefer to not change the behaviour. Will need to change the docs. Any thoughts on this? Jonathan _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list -- fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com To unsubscribe send an email to fractint-leave(a)mailman.xmission.com

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