Jonathan Osuch wrote:
Jerome,
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It wasn't figured out. I think there is enough interest for you to post the information here.
I looked for fractint archives, but failed to find them. Do they exist?
Look at: http://www.xmission.com/pub/lists/fractint/archive/
Jonathan
Dear List... Here's what I did. I realize it is kind of a kludge, but it does work, and so do several other old DOS programmes that I checked. 1. Get ahold of something that will let you resize the XP partition. I used PartitionMagic - PM7.0. Earlier versions won't work on an ntfs. 2. I reduced the xp partition by somewhat less than 1gb and created a fat 16 partition of about one gig. 3. I formatted the fat 16 partition with a windows 98 using a windows 98 startup disk and then used 'sys' to get the system files onto the partition. My hope was to boot this partition but I haven't been able to do that yet. 4. Once you have the fat partition running, you will notice that the XP file system can see the fat partition no problem, and can operate on it as if it was part of XP. So, XP is on the 'C' drive, and fat16 is the 'D' drive. 5. Put fractint on the 'D' drive and after bringing up XP, just double click on fractint.exe from 'my computer'. And away you go. I'm not a power user of fractint, but whatever I tried seemed to work ok. I sense that laying down a fat partition is cheating, but it does the job. You can also boot from a windows 98 startup disk, and run as well. Then though, your fat partition will be drive 'C' and you won't be able to see any of XP. Hope this helps and is not too trivial. jerome