I share an idea I had years ago ... Intel used to make a 20MHz 286 chip. (I remember using a Dell laptop that had it, 27 years ago.) With today's technology, you could put that same chip, PLUS a number of megabytes of extended memory, PLUS DOS with Fractint installed - all on a single chip. With EVERYTHING running at chip speed (no waiting for slow RAM), I'd think it would be just about the fastest native code Fractint fractal generator around. Could even fit in a box small enough to fit in your pocket, even with mouse/keyboard/video ports. On 12/30/2014 10:51 AM, David W Riccio wrote:
I love the disk mode
I have been using it to make 4Kx4K images for a long time.
In the pure DOS environment it speeds things up to make a RAM disk and a bat file to transfer the Fractint software to the RAM drive and run Fractint on that RAM disk. (since the Disk Video uses disk reads and writes to build the image)
On 12/30/2014 11:13 AM, Bill Jemison wrote:
Thanks for reminding me of disk video mode! As I am trying to get the time and energy to do more audio fractal explorations it may have saved me some rediscovering. Since the visual part of the fractal is of little or no interest/use to me in producing audio fractals, I would often use disk video mode to listen to the sounds while in a dos box. I could control my sound card and recording modes quite easily within windows, and when necessary get back into the fractint window to adjust parameters within fractint. While the speed of disk video may be of great use for most, it is irrelevant to me...I always use orbit delay - often with values of 1000 or more.
Bill Jemison https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/
On 12/30/2014 12:14 PM, Paul N. Lee wrote:
Lloyd Garrick (JackOfTradeZ) wrote:
Does anyone have experience or ever use the "Disk Video" mode? ........ I CAN'T BELIEVE I just discover this after using FractInt almost 20 years now !!
I have for many years now!!!
I use it when I have to, for machines that will not display FractInt correctly, or when needing specialized video modes (especially large resolutions). Usually works quite well, and somewhat faster.
Just prefer seeing the generated images more. :-)
Sincerely, P.N.L.
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