Yes, expecting Fractint to be forward-compatible is asking too much. Despite what you surmised, more recent versions of fractint did have changes to the formula parser, and formulas provided with those versions were often chosen to test the changes, so might not work with older versions. Glad you have things working now. Still puzzled at your affection for an even older version of fractint, but there is no accounting for taste! Enjoy! Tim On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 10:27 AM Giacomo Belbo via Fractint < fractint@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
I think I figured it out: in older versions all formula files need to be in the main /fractint directory + some of the formulas are just not compatible with the older version.
On 8 May 2023, at 13:15, Giacomo Belbo via Fractint < fractint@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hi Tim and congratulations for the work you have been doing all these years for Fractint! The reason I’m asking about v16 is that I’ve created a setup with the software I had on my first PC and that included Fractint v16. I was able to load the fractint.frm and fractint.par from v20 but I wasn’t able to run any other of the newer formulas and I was just curious as I think that the format of formula files probably remained largely the same. Cheers!
On 8 May 2023, at 00:48, Timothy Wegner <tim@tswegner.net> wrote:
The list is alive although since Fractint is very old, list traffic is usually very low. Thanks to xmission for donating free mailing lists to fractint all these years!
I am puzzled by your question. Why would you go from fractint version 20 to version 16, that must be really very old! Fractint, despite being a very old DOS program, runs very well under DOSBox on many platforms (probably Windows, Mac, and Linux although I haven't tried all of those.). For example, I am running Windows 10 on my main PC, and Fractint 20.04.14 runs like a champ under a version of DOSBox called DOSBox Svn.
Tim
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 8:16 AM Giacomo Belbo via Fractint < fractint@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just wondering if this mailing list is still alive, I noticed the forums are not active, I hope people still use Fractint.
A more practical question: I have v20 of Fractint and just installed v16. I’ve tried to run some of the formulas that come with v20 on v16: the main formulas (FractInt.frm) of v20 run fine on v16 however all the rest of the formulas under /frm do not run (I get error messages) - I thought there was compatibility, am I doing something wrong? Cheers! _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list -- fractint@mailman.xmission.com To unsubscribe send an email to fractint-leave@mailman.xmission.com
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