Hal, There a couple of options for moving files into and out of the FreeDOS machine. 1) You can map a diskette drive (or an image file of a diskette drive to the VM) and copy files into it or out of the diskette image. (There are tools that will create (or mount) a diskette .img file available for most OS ... I know I tested something that worked in Win10 but these days I am mostly using Linux as my base / host OS and that function is built into Linux. I have been using Win10 for things like Photoshop and software that will only run in Windows but I have been running it in a VM under Linux) 2) You can start networking in FreeDOS (I think the virtual machine I posted has networking tools included, if not, you can download the FreeDOS CD image that does contain them and move them into the Fractal VM from the CD image.) There is a guide to setting up a small and limited FTP server in the FreeDOS environment. You can then point any FTP client at the FreeDOS VM and just copy files into and out of the VM ... You should create two batch files to boot the FreeDOS one for creating the Fractals that maximizes resources (mostly memory) for Fractint and one for networking (which loads the network drivers and uses a bit more memory for that function.) 3) I think the networking software in FreeDOS will talk to a standard windows SMB share or any server running SMB (like a Linux machine with Samba or a Windows Share on Win 10, 7, XP.) You can map the remote drive to a drive letter in the FreeDOS machine and it will look like a disk drive to both Win10 and FreeDOS. This requires you setup networking in FreeDOS (see the FreeDOS site for details) ... I know I had this working but I am not sure I included it in the VM that is on the Fractint site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By the way, it is possible to run Windows XP in a VM on Windows 10 (but you need install disks for Windows XP and the Service packs to bring it up to the last version Microsoft patched before they stop sending out patches) ... the advantage to this is you can run Fractint directly in XP's "DOS" environment (or in DOSBOX if you prefer) ... And you have all the networking to built in that will share drives between Fractint and the host Windows 10 machine. I do this so I can still use Photoshop CS2 on my Windows 10 Photoshop machine. It works without any issues. The only disadvantage of doing this is you must own a copy of Windows XP and a valid XP activation key ... (it is also the reason we can't post/share a VM with with all the software pre-configured ) I can confirm that this will work on Windows 10 and Windows XP in a VM under the most recent version of VirtualBox on that Windows 10 host. (This gives you back the Virtual XP machine that was part of Windows 7) While there is a hit to performance by running a guest OS on a Host machine the newer machines are so much faster than any old base hardware available to DOS or XP that they will perform faster than they did on bare hardware. And you don't have to go looking for drivers for graphics cards etc. They are built into VirtualBox. For XP guest machines there are extensions in VirtualBOX that will provide a wonderful video driver that you can configure as a display equal to or larger than your Windows 10 machine. It also provides for USB pass-thru so you can access most of your USB devices. (these guest extensions do not work in a DOS guest machine but work fine in a XP guest machine) On 06/11/2017 10:01 AM, Harold Lane wrote:
David, Many thanks for your links to the VirtualBox version of FreeDos with Fractint included/embedded! I'm going to give this a try on my Win 10 computer.
You said: "it's isolated from the rest of your system." I have a question: If Fractint writes its images to an isolated virtual hard drive, what methods can one use to get the Images from there to the Windows environment in order to share?
- Hal Lane
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-----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of David W Riccio Sent: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:09 PM To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Fractint] JunoCam fractal video
There is a VirtualBox version on https://fractint.net/ that works on Windows 10 (any Op Sys that will run VirtualBox)
It is running in FreeDOS in a VM so it isolated from the rest of your system.
Look at this link https://fractint.net/ftp/virtual_environments/
On 06/09/2017 03:56 PM, mchris@value.net - Webmail wrote:
Cool!
My apologies, I've been in lurk mode for a while, not paying attention to any relevant posts on the subject.
I bought a new computer last year, and want to get back into fractals. In there a version of Fractint that will run on Windoze 10, and if so where can I get it? I've been to the Fractint page:
http://www.nahee.com/spanky/www/fractint/fractint.html
It looks pretty dated. I've seen links for Windoze versions through third party sites, but hesitate to go that route. Want to get the latest/greatest.
Aloha, Bud
----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Wegner" <tim@tswegner.net> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 4:39:08 PM Subject: [Fractint] JunoCam fractal video
Watch this full screen with the sound turned to maximum so as to enjoy the sountrack excerpt from "2001: A Space Odyssey". Video by Gerald Eichstädt reconstructed from JunoCam Images and SPICE Data and Seán Doran who post-processed the original version, and added the sound track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kQbTBt418o&feature=youtu.be
Youtube links are a little tricky, if I messed up try searching in youtube for "Juno Perijove 06"
A fine example of fractals in the natural world.
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