After several years of inactivity, I have recently begun to use Fractint again. DOSBox has been the key for me. I am now able to easily use the sound parameters, enabling me to pursue my interest in Music Fractals. DOSBox is surprisingly well-behaved so far, and exhibits just a few behaviors that I don't remember from the past. One of these can be problematic if you are not prepared for it. Various video modes cause the sounds to change pitch - dramatically. Counter-intuitively, at least for me, the lower the display resolution (smaller window) the lower the pitch. I normally work in 1024x768x256 (SF7 for me). The following pars, based on Albrecht Niekamp's "Out_of_Orbit", were all designed to be heard at that display resolution. Try displaying first at 1024 and then try other resolutions to see the effect. This is a bit troubling in that it is not easy to get people to view in the intended resolution. One note...when listening to music fractals, I find it a lot better sounding if I have some mild reverb included in my soundcard environment. Not too much though...experiment. These four variations show some of the things that can be done with different drawing methods (boundry tracing and 3 pass in this case), orbit delay settings, base hertz values, quantize note pitch on/off, scale mappings and synth parameters. All these except the drawing methods can be accessed via <ctrl+F>. I find it productive to use Viewwindows modes for music fractals. 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