Looks interesting... I'm also checking it out. Couple of possible problems, though. a) all my legacy software is on floppies, and I don't presently have a floppy drive! b) The Evaluation Guide tells me ; "Virtual machines also don't see the PC's hardware video card as a native device, so users can't install their own video card drivers. Nor are SCSI devices supported in a virtual machine". This video card business might deny the operation of Fractint? (In a native virtual DOS installation)? But you have tried this in the Connectix version? John W. ----- Original Message ----- From: <nick.grasso@nasrecruitment.com> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [Fractint] A request to ATI Radeon VE display adapterusers reFractint.

Regarding the issue of running Fractint on Windows XP, Microsoft recently annouced that Virtual PC is now free. If you cannot get Fractint to run directly on XP, it WILL work on Virtual PC. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

It is really quite a slick program. Once you have it set up you, you just click on an icon on your desktop and it opens up a DOS window (and automatically runs Fractint if you put it in the Autoexec.bat). The only problem is that it is much slower than running from native DOS. But slow is better than nothing. Actually, I am still running the older version by Connectix before Microsoft bought them. I think the latest version is a bit faster. Now that it is free, I will download the latest version and let you all know how it goes.

Nick