Here's a simple process that should work for some WinNT, Win2000, WinXP systems. I can't guarantee that it will work on all systems but this is what I did on my Win2000 system, and fractint works fine. This assumes that you have fractint.exe and makefcg.exe located in a directory on a FAT (16) or FAT32 file system partition that is readable by DOS 7. If you have Win95 or Win98 on an older PC system, generate a system boot floppy disk. You can do that with your Win95/95 floppy Format progam and set the attributes to transfer the operating system to the floppy. There is even an old dos command "syscopy a:" or "sys a:" (my memory is fading....) that will copy the basic dos 7 operating system to a clean empty floppy disk. If you boot your WinNT Win2000, WinXp PC from this floppy you will have loaded DOS 7 on your PC. Log & Change ("CD") to the drive and directory where you keep fractint.exe and makefcfg.exe. Run "makefcfg -true -overwrite" and makefcfg.exe should be able to read your video card's vesa registers and write them to your fractint.cfg file. Still remaining in DOS 7, run fractint.exe to see if fractint.cfg is actually pointing fractint to your video card's vesa registers. If everything has worked according to Hoyle, you should be able to switch fractint between all the different video formats that makefcg.exe found. If, however fractint cannot see your video card's vesa register while in DOS 7, then the trouble may be that your video card is the "newer" kind that doesn't support vesa registers, and you're going to have to switch to an "older" video card from an "older" machine, or you're going to have to go out and buy a "old" style video card that does support the vesa registers. If fractint works fine, then remove the DOS 7 boot floppy, and reboot your PC in WinXXXX and now create and configure a DOS box for Fractint, Factint should run fine. At least it runs fine on my Win2000 system. All the best, TG. ----- Original Message ----- From: <nick.grasso@hrads.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Re: Fractint on XP
Tim Wegner wrote:
Even if you do install XP with NTFS, I believe you could make a second partition using FAT32 (someone correct me if I am wrong). Then you could boot DOS from a floppy, store the images on the FAT32 partition, and still access them from XP.<<<
But DOS doesn't support FAT32 does it? I thought it only supported FAT16.
Unless
you're talking about the DOS 7 that comes with Windows 98.
Regarding the thread on Virtual PC, do you know of anywhere we could get the correct fractint.cfg entries for the S3 Trio 64 4MB card (which Virtual PC emulates) for 1600x1200x256?
Thanks.
Nick
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