On 12/30/2014 09:14 AM, Paul N. Lee wrote:
Lloyd Garrick (JackOfTradeZ) wrote:
Does anyone have experience or ever use the "Disk Video" mode? ........ I CAN'T BELIEVE I just discover this after using FractInt almost 20 years now !!
I have for many years now!!!
I use it when I have to, for machines that will not display FractInt correctly, or when needing specialized video modes (especially large resolutions). Usually works quite well, and somewhat faster.
I used it for a year or so when running Fractint under Windows 9x. On the hardware I had at the time, any Fractint graphics mode and Windows would launch a terminal fight that would end with a frozen computer. But the text-mode disk video would happily run. On the same hardware, DOS Fractint ran beautifully in graphic mode under OS/2. Could even minimize the Fractint window and leave it running in background without noticeable impact.
Just prefer seeing the generated images more. :-)
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