Fractal fans: The subject line says it all. I have no time to post an FOTD today. But unless things get worse, the next FOTD will appear one day from now on Tuesday the 25th. Jim M.
This might be interesting for you if you would still love to play with FractInt but can't - because your operating system is no longer compatible with DOS and FractInt. Some of us are actually keeping older Windows-98 machines just to be able to run FractInt - if you do not want to do that, here is another possibility: Found recently is a freeware DOS emulator that enables many operating systems to run DOS applications. FractInt runs fairly well now - albeit a bit slow - under the emulator on XP machines. Try it if you use an operating system which normally would not allow DOS, such as Mac or Windows XP. The DOS emulator software is here: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net For all questions about the setup of Dosbox, please refer to the Dosbox documentation and the forum. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
Paul N. Lee wrote:
This might be interesting for you if you would still love to play with FractInt but can't - because your operating system is no longer compatible with DOS and FractInt. Some of us are actually keeping older Windows-98 machines just to be able to run FractInt - if you do not want to do that, here is another possibility:
Found recently is a freeware DOS emulator that enables many operating systems to run DOS applications. FractInt runs fairly well now - albeit a bit slow - under the emulator on XP machines. Try it if you use an operating system which normally would not allow DOS, such as Mac or Windows XP.
The DOS emulator software is here: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
For all questions about the setup of Dosbox, please refer to the Dosbox documentation and the forum.
If you're running Linux, you can also use QEMU to run DOS. I understand it is much faster than Dosbox, but I've not tried any of them. From the Synaptic Package Manager page about QEMU: QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator: currently the package supports arm, powerpc, sparc and x86 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs. QEMU has two operating modes: * User mode emulation: QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. * Full system emulation: QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherials. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual PC on a single server. As QEMU requires no host kernel patches to run, it is very safe and easy to use. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 07:39, david wrote:
If you're running Linux, you can also use QEMU to run DOS. I understand it is much faster than Dosbox, but I've not tried any of them.
if he's running linux he could use xfractint, the only problem or drawback then being of no colour cycling. sammi
sam ende wrote:
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 07:39, david wrote:
If you're running Linux, you can also use QEMU to run DOS. I understand it is much faster than Dosbox, but I've not tried any of them.
if he's running linux he could use xfractint, the only problem or drawback then being of no colour cycling.
I know - that's why I haven't tried Fractint for DOS under any of the emulators ... -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community
sam ende wrote:
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:19, david wrote:
I know - that's why I haven't tried Fractint for DOS under any of the emulators ...
ah :), why would you need a dos emulator then though, obviously i've missed something ?
Some other poster mentioned the desire to run Fractint under a version of Windows that wasn't Fractint-friendly, someone else mentioned use of VMware or some other way of running DOS under Windows, so I thought I'd chime in with an option for running DOS Fractint under Linux. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community
On Thursday 27 April 2006 06:45, david wrote:
Some other poster mentioned the desire to run Fractint under a version of Windows that wasn't Fractint-friendly, someone else mentioned use of VMware or some other way of running DOS under Windows, so I thought I'd chime in with an option for running DOS Fractint under Linux.
thanks :) sammi
Sam wrote:
if he's running linux he could use xfractint, the only problem or drawback then being of no colour cycling.
Inability to color cycle is more a limitation of a GUI using a true color driver than the Linux OS. Windows has the same issue. To color cyccle you need to choos a 256-color driver. Tim
Tim Wegner wrote:
Sam wrote:
if he's running linux he could use xfractint, the only problem or drawback then being of no colour cycling.
Inability to color cycle is more a limitation of a GUI using a true color driver than the Linux OS. Windows has the same issue. To color cyccle you need to choos a 256-color driver.
Hmmm, I'll have to try that out. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community
On Thursday 27 April 2006 02:23, Tim Wegner wrote:
Inability to color cycle is more a limitation of a GUI using a true color driver than the Linux OS. Windows has the same issue. To color cyccle you need to choos a 256-color driver.
thanks, so, technically if i had such i could get xfractint to do colour cycling ? sammi
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