January 2023 - Fractint - mailman.xmission.com

Update 2022-05-03 to SDL version
by Jonathan Osuch 13 Aug '23

13 Aug '23

Folks, An updated version of SDL Fractint has been uploaded to www.fractint.net. Fixes include: Fixed palette editor font. Fixed prompt/tab screen borders when a fractal type or formula has no parameters. Enabled orbits window. Fixed sound routines so emulation of PC speaker works and turns off when sound=no is used. Fixed functionality of orbitsave=yes/no/sound so that it will now turn off when orbitsave=no is used at the command prompt screen <G>. Note that I did not get the PC speaker emulation to reproduce the screech that you get in the DOS version when the orbit delay is too short. The sound skips, instead. The click due to the square wave cutting off when the note is ended is faithfully reproduced. The Advanced Sound Control features are not implemented. Look in the directory at: https://www.fractint.net/ftp/experimental/ For: Windows version (32-bit) is: SDL2-fractint-20.05alpha-2022-05-03.zip Pre-compiled 64-bit Linux version is: SDL2-Xfractint-20.05alpha-2022-05-03.tar.xz Jonathan

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not sure who remembers me, but
by travelgirl.fics＠gmail.com 30 Jun '23

30 Jun '23

was active as one of the stone group artists back on compuserve in the good ol' days, pre-1997 Ior so). remember bert, tim, lee skinner, and a few others from that time, but it has also been over 25 years... if you were there back then, feel free to say hi... oh, and if there's a program useable today (preferably free) that will read the old PAR files and generate images in larger resolutions than 1024x768, i'd love to hear about it. system is win10 if that helps, but i might be able to scrounge up some linux hardware if i had to... thanks. caren

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Question about XFractint
by david 08 Jan '23

08 Jan '23

Good afternoon from balmy Hawaii! I came up with a fractal at 3840x2160 (4K resolution) that I saved and would like to reload and render in a 30000x30000 disk video mode but when I pick that disk video mode selection to change the mode, generate it, and save the resulting image, it's only 3840x2160 resolution. Running SDL2-Xfractint-20.05alpha-2021-07-03.tar.xz downloaded from fractint.org/experimental on 64-bit Debian 11, i9 processor with 64GB of RAM and 780GB of disk space free, so neither memory nor disk space should be a limitation. Ideas? -- David W. Jones gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com "My password is the last 8 digits of π."

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