I have been using Fractint (on a virtual machine running under Oracle Virtual Box) on both Windows 7 and Linux (Mint 17 and Ubuntu) This environment supports many of the graphics modes, including 1024x768x256 VESA There is a per-configured virtual machine on the www.fractint.org site. (FreeDOS with Fractint pre built) It has been tested on a number of VM Hosts On a multi core CPU you can dedicate a processor to the DOS virtual machine, you can even run multiple copies of the machine so you can work on more that one image at a time. I have run 6 copies on a Dual 4core Xeon machine under Linux. The virtual machine should also run an any Intel Based Mac (OS X + Virtual Box) but I have not tested it under that environment. If anyone has, please post results to this email server. I have also setup a bootable flash / jump drive with FreeDOS and Fractint installed on it. If your machine will boot to a USB drive you are up and running and have the added benefit that you can keep your normal OS on your hard drive untouched ... If you boot to your normal OS you can move the files from the USB to your hard drive, etc. (this is an advantage over the virtual machine which is a bit harder to move your files to the outside environment) The down side is that you may not have all the video modes available depending on you graphics hardware. On 1/30/2015 10:32 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
I haven't been able to use Fractint since back when I had Win98 & NT; it won't run on my WinXP-MediaEd now (Intel machine), though I understand XP may work with Fractint on an AMD machine.
My question is this: Which OS does Fractint "like" the best... Which OS will it run the best on??? [Unless Fractint runs much, much better on DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, etc.), I would really prefer an OS with a GUI... for my sake.]
So, what do you think?: Win98; Win98SE; ME; NT3-4; 2000(NT5.0); WinXP-Media-Pro-SP3; 7... ? 32-bit?
I've just ordered an old AMD PC just for Fractint (Dell OptiPlex 740 Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz 1GB 80GB CDRW/DVD XP Professional Desktop) ... I don't know the Video card yet. There's a chance Fractint may work on this AMD with WinXP Pro, but what do you think would be the best OS for Fractint on this machine?
Thanks much for your suggestions!! ...Knute
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