Hi Tim, It's been a while since I fired up Fractint, but might be just the thing to fill the excess pandemic 'stuck-at-home' hours. Unzipped your archive onto a non-system SSD drive ("J:" partition) and ran the 'run_dosbox_fractint.bat' file. Seems to work fine out-of-the-box with the 1600x1200 Vesa Standard interface, though very slow compared to the old Daum setup I've kept all these years, so probably some tweaking and re-configuration is in order. Have to flog the memory banks a bit to figure it out... No trouble with "c" or any of the command keys I've tried so far. Have not tested anything related to sound yet. OS: Windows 10x64, build 20H2 Ryzen 3700X CPU AMD X570 chipset 32 GB DDR4 ram AMD Radeon RX580 display adapter with 2 BenQ GW2765 27" monitors On 11/27/2020 5:32 PM, Timothy Wegner wrote:
Lately I have been getting emails from folks who long ago used Fractint, and wanted to try it again, only to discover it doesn't run under Windows. My guess is that these folks have lots of time on their hands because of the pandemic, which is why I am suddenly hearing from folks. Of course there are various other possibilities, including the SDL version Jonathan is working on, but my general answer has been to suggest they run the DOS version with DOSBox. I had generally recommended a version called DOSBox SVN Daum on a Chinese site. But today I learned that it is no longer maintained and is not recommended. So I found a much more recent DOSBox version, and set up some files that should make it very easy to use with Fractint. I would like some folks to try it. I have not yet written a readme or other instructions, but they are pretty simple. I would love some folks here to try it and and tell me if it works for you.
Download the file https://fractint.net/ftp/current/DOSBox/DOSBoxX_Fractint.zip
Unzip the zip archive to a directory on your Windows machine. You will see the directory DOSBoxX_Fractint containing a batch file, a directory for DOSBox-X and a directory for Fractint. You should be able to locate the batch file in Windows explorer and run it. DOSBox should come up running Fractint. Let me know if this works.
DOSBox is the DOSBox-X version 0.83.7 compiled Oct 31, 2020, and Fractint is version 20.04.14. The VESA video modes should work up to 1600x1200
Feedback much appreciated.
Hope everyone is healthy, my family is fine here.
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