Richard wrote:
> No longer have a DOS/Win 95 computer. Fractint may have been the program I thoroughly enjoyed.
> I just booted up an XP desktop and probably have a Win 98.
> What program will run and 'cycle' fractal creations in either system?
Sorry for the late response. I have been away (almost ran into Jonathan in Iowa but we didn't manage it this time.) On top of that I reorganized the way I do email and just realized I am not set up very well to notice Fractint list traffic. I will remedy that.
Your question got a lot of good answers here on the list. Thanks to those who responded. Of the suggestions, I like using DosBox the best. I am also experimenting with older versions of Windows, DOS, etc. I like DOSBox because it has terrific VESA video support built in. Running on older Windows versions or DOS itself has the problem that you have to take some additional steps to get very many video modes working. I'm not even very sure how to do that any more.
With DOSBox, especially the "DOSBox svn" version (see http://ykhwong.x-y.net/xe/143), there are a lot of high resolution VESA video modes that fractint can use built in. What I do is run the ancient vesainfo.exe utility under DOSBox to see what modes are available, and then edit fractint.cfg appropriately. It's crazy for folks (including me) to keep rediscovering how to do this, so I will make some of the files available.
Of course, as was mentioned by Nick Grasso in his reply, DOSBox runs under just about every operating system. I even got it (and Fractint) running on my Samsung Galaxy S3, though that combination isn't a very usable, at least without a little more work.
Tim
_____________________________________________