Caren,
ahh. sorta figured out how to get it to recognise my PARs... having said that, i may have encountered a "few" bugs... after trying one of my earliest (0004), the fractint window changed sizes, the information screen can't be resized (and is difficult to read), and the background colour went to an odd yellow/orange. the colour pallette is not accessible (an angry beep), so i may have to close and reopen the window...
The text screen and the graphics screen are set to the same size, so the text can be hard to read if the window is too small. It should be possible to code the text screen to show up in its own window, I just haven't done it yet. The default locations of maps, pars, formula, etc. are set in sstools.ini. These are initially set to start from the location where the Fractint executable is located. Video sizes are set with the <DEL> key. Default video modes for the <DEL> screen are set in fractint.cfg (but don't use an old one since the format has changed). The docs are found by pressing <F1> twice. If you try to print the documentation, Fractint (SDL) will crash. The resulting document file has most of the docs, but is missing the last couple of pages with historical changes on them. Haven't figured out why. Jonathan