I like the color cycling options the best. With my funky TV-out video card... its possible to make videotapes of the animated result. By saving fractal images, exporting to Paint Shop Pro (5) and editing... then re-loading those images as .gif's I can animate those as well. The last slide is invariably "Thanks to the Stone-Soup Group" and "don't want money... " ;^P My pokey old 686-120MHz has the hoss-power to run these images... IF I don't let that BLOATWARE windoze get involved... just shut down every other program... cntl/alt/delete yes ??? <resume lurk> H^) harry JackOTradez wrote:
Re: Fractint "deadware"? NO!
I have purchased and registered several of those "other" new windoze-based fractal programs. They are good; a couple of them are really good. But (unless I have missed something) none of them can zoom AS DEEP as Fractint, nor with anywhere close the max number of iterations. And Fractint still has the most options and fractal types. The other programs seem pointed towards those who just want to make pretty pictures. Fractint is (and always has been) for the serious fractal explorer. You can even write your own formulas and experiment! And it is good enuf just as it is. (I use the developers version 20+). As for DOS obsolete, I feel that anyone sophisticated enuf to use Fractint to it's max capabilities should be able to buy or obtain a cheap/second-hand pentium-2 or 3 system and install DOS on it - this will be possible for many years yet. Deadware? Not in this lifetime ... ... ...
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