Paul, maybe you can help me. I have been clinging tenaciously to Windoze 98 because I thought DOS programs could not be run under versions beyond 98se. If you are in fact running DOS Fractint under XP, could you point me toward an informational link? Also, is FAT16 crucial to running DOS apps under Windoze? Evil Bill FAT32'd me when I made the mistake or running an upgrade from Win98 to 98se on automatic, and I have had nothing but trouble with everything from DOS apps to Win-based graphic editors to web browser (Exploder 6.0) ever since. TIA, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 22:11 Subject: Re: [Fractint] A request to ATI Radeon VE display adapter usersreFractint. ...
I'm puzzled, still, about this seeming dependance of Fractint upon the flavor of the XP installed.
There is no dependence on the edition of Win-XP, or it's release or version. I currently own twelve different machines, all running different Windows OS versions. Three of them are using the Home edition, each with different video cards. And they are all capable of running FractInt and producing images and various display modes.
Maybe it's coincidence that the later shop-bought machines come with video adapters that are useable?
Every different video card available, along with all the different version levels of drivers that can go with any single card, make up so many variations in the environment with which something can run, that it is just happens to be exactly that in your situation: a coincidence.
What I was unable to do on my old computer, (XP Home), was to run more than a couple of DOS commands. On the new one I can enter DOS from Start, Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt. There I can perform a "MEM/C|MORE" whereupon I can see DOS loaded into upper memory, just like the "good old days". Surely this is a factor in the running of Fractint? No?
I can do DOS commands, from the Command Prompt, on all of the Home editions of Win-XP running on my machines. Have been doing so for several years now. Not having access to your old machine, I can not say exactly what problems you were having, nor how they could have been resolved.
Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
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