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
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
_______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint
Tony Parker wrote:
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.
And if I only have NTFS, then ???? If I booted to dos from a floppy and ran makefcg.exe from the floppy, would it get the settings that I need? Doug Stewart
I have some totally kludgey suggestions at the end of my message which I can't guarantee, but try it out, who knows it might actually work! I have Win2000 but I am using FAT32 file system partitions on my hard drive because of all my legacy DOS software. I don't know if fractint.exe and makfcfg.exe can "see" other files, drives, and directories if they are running in a NTFS file system partition. Many of the older DOS type programs will not run even in a DOS box on WinXp, Even if they do load & sort of run they might not be able to "see" other files, drives, and directories. You are just going toi have to experiment. I do know that a DOS 7.0 boot floppy will only "see" FAT16 and FAT32 files system partitions. A DOS 7.0 will not see a NTFS file system partition. On the other hand, if you have some extra free space on your hard drive, you can creat a separate FAT16 or FAT32 file system partition with one of the WinNT/2000/XP setup and partition utilities. Partition Magic is a great 3rd party partion utitlity that allows you to create all kinds (FAT16, FAT32, OS2, NTFS, Unix, Linux, etc.) of different file system partitions and conversions. Here's a totally kludgey idea! Put makefcfg on your DOS 7 boot floppy. Boot your system with the DOS 7 Boot Floppy. Run makefcfg.exe. Hopefully it might actually "see" your video card's vesa registers and write a fractint.cfg file on your boot floppy. Reboot your PC in WinXp. WinXp should be able to "see" and read files on a DOS7 FAT16 or FAT32 Floppy disk. Rename the fractint.cfg file in your Fractint directory to "fractintcfg.old". Then copy the fractint.cfg file on your floppy to the Fractint directory. Create and configure a "DOS box" & icon for fractint.exe. Double click the fractint icon to run fractint.exe. Who knows? It even might work. Hope this helps, TG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Stewart" <dastew@sympatico.ca> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:16 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Re: Fractint on XP
Tony Parker wrote:
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.
And if I only have NTFS, then ????
If I booted to dos from a floppy and ran makefcg.exe from the floppy, would it get the settings that I need? Doug Stewart
_______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint
participants (3)
-
Doug Stewart -
nick.grasso＠hrads.com -
Tony Parker