On Fri, 7 May 2004, carenp wrote:
hello, fractographers... some of you might remember me from the "good ol' days" as an artist with the stone soup group back in the 80s and 90s...
i was wondering a few things yesterday:
.1. does anyone happen to have archived a copy of my pars, specifically from 1601 to 1700? i have the earlier ones, but for some reason cannot find those...
.2. does anyone know how to make fractint understand a newer nVidia video card, specifically in 1600x1200 mode?
Check their web site. If it's not there and it's not in your hardware BIOS (and you wouldn't be asking if it was), then you are probably limited to disk-video and batch-files.
.3. on a related subject, does anyone know why i can't save a disk video of my creations in fractint 20.3? i'd like to push some out as far as 6000 x 4500, and i have the disk space and the processor to handle most of them...
Unless you can make batch mode work, my guess would be that you are trying to use NTFS. You'll hav to read the helpfiles with windows to re-size your partition and make a FAT16 or FAT32 partition, which is something that I've never done with Windows alone, but I've done it with the utilities that came with my hard drive.
.4. FRMs are problematic, too... does anyone have a collection of FRMs from that time period, up to say 1997ish? those formulae must also have died in the great crash a few years ago (don't ask; i'm still grieving)... i'd be especially grateful for sylvie's and the REBs...
I'm planning on archiving mine on the web in a zipfile.
i've tried chaos pro and it worked well for one of my old collection (one that didn't require an external FRM), but crashed badly on another (same one that when it worked, it didn't recreate correctly at all)... i've also looked at winfract 20.2, and it refuses to handle large images (among other issues)...
i'm looking for as inexpensive an option as possible, as i'm broke trying to get my new photography business up and running...
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