2011/12/17 david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>

Tim Wegner wrote:

I'd be curious to know what systems folks use to run fractint.

My quick survey, with the caveat that I have not run Fractint much in the last 10 years, so some of you are MUCH more expert ...

1. I can run fractint pretty well in DOSBOX under Windows 7 64 bit. In fact in runs really well, I just noticed that the emulated CPU can be sped up. Mouse works.

Runs very well in DOSBOX under Debian Lenny 32-bit. Haven't tried it on Debian Sid 64-bit yet. I should try a DOS VM under Oracle VirtualBox, I think it provides more control over what video "card" the VM sees.

2. Runs (barely) in a Win98 VirtualBox virtual machine under Windows 7 64bit. Need to experiment more.

Never tried that.

3. Runs really well under Windows 98 on an old machine.

On an old machine (no longer around), it would hang the machine. Fighting with W98 over the display hardware the machine had.

Ran perfectly well on the same hardware under OS/2 Warp. Could even run in the background while I used the system for other things. Never got that to work under W95 (which didn't have the display hardware conflict that W98 had) but W95 wasn't any good at multitasking.

4. Runs in F3 mode under Windows XP, better in DOSBOX.

Runs fine under Windows XP running under Oracle VirtualBox running under 32-bit Linux. Didn't have to use F3 mode, just started up the XP VM, opened a CMD window, and ran fractint. Rendered an image at 800x600, didn't try anything higher.

Of course, the Linux native XFractint runs fine, too. I primarily use XFractint.

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