Tony, Disk video is broken. I will have a look at it. And, based on the size of the images you want to create, I'll need to modify it to be able to switch over from using memory to using the hard disk. Thanks for the feedback. Jonathan On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 09:47 +0400, Tony Hanmer wrote:
Thanks for asking, Tim!
In the Fractint.cfg file, these modes cause an instant crash:
SF9 ,256 color mode , 8, 1280, 1024,256, CF2 ,Win32 Disk Video , 11,30000,22500,256,disk CF3 ,Win32 Disk Video , 11,16304,12228,256,disk CF4 ,Win32 Disk Video , 11,32608,24456,256,disk CF5 ,Win32 Disk Video , 11, 3200, 2400,256,disk
All but the first are ones I copied & pasted from other copies of the file which worked for me in other versions, especially but not only DOS ones, e.g. also WinFract versions.
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Tony
On 12 August 2017 at 00:22, Timothy Wegner <tim@tswegner.net> wrote:
Tony, could you provide me with details of examples that crash the SDL fractint? I can't tell from your report exactly what you were attempting. As simple an example as you can make would be useful. Is the problem mainly the video mode?
Thanks,
Tim
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Tony Hanmer <a.hanmer@gmail.com> wrote:
Great to see! Wanting to know how to add large disk render modes in Fractint.cfg using Notepad - I've cut & pasted some of my old ones from other DOS- based Fractints, but these cause the program to crash instantly, even as small
as
4000 by 3000 pixels, and I want to go as large as, say, 30000 by 22500... Help please?
Thanks, Tony Hanmer Svaneti, Republic of Georgia
On 7 August 2017 at 20:42, mchris@value.net - Webmail <mchris@val ue.net> wrote:
Wow! This is pretty exciting for me. Have been wanting to dip my toe
back
in but frankly time-slammed between work, getting my late parents' home ready for sale, and the upcoming eclipse. But I'll keep an eye on this
and
probably check it out after the dust settles in a month or two on my
Win
10
PC.
Aloha, Bud
----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Wegner" <tim@tswegner.net> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" < fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 9:29:37 AM Subject: [Fractint] Windows SDL Port
First a huge disclaimer - Jonathan Osuch has a very demanding job and
can
only work on fractint a few hours a week, if that. So he can't respond
to
feedback in a timely way. This is not to say he doesn't want feedback.
That said, Jonathan has been working on an SDL (
port of fractint that runs natively on Windows, including Windows 10.
This
effort is hiding in plain site on the website here: http://fractint.net/ftp/experimental/ Just download the SDL*.zip file, dump the contents somewhere, navigate to the fractint.exe file, and run it.
The SDL port can potentially be compiled on other platforms, e.g.
Ubuntu
Linux, but Jonathan doesn't have that working yet.
A couple of points.
This is a literal port of the classical DOS fractint, not a normal
windows
application. So the interface looks a lot like the DOS fractint, and is probably hard to use if you are not familiar with the classic version.
This
is not even a winfract port, which has some windows interface features.
This is alpha quality. An amazing amount works but some things
(probably
a
lot of things) don't.
It would be interesting for some of you DOS fractint experts to give
this a
try. If it seems promising, you might consider some systematic testing (might be premature).
Since the list is quiet these days, I see no harm in discussing the
results
here. Probably you folks can help each other out, since Jonathan will
only
occasionally be able to chime in.
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