Thanks Jonathan: I'm now back to my long missing Fractint. It worked perfectly in choosing the fractals, colors, but I'm still testing all its other potencialities. Marcus tIM: Citando fractint-request@mailman.xmission.com:

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1. Windows SDL Port (Timothy Wegner) 2. Re: Windows SDL Port (mchris@value.net - Webmail)

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 11:29:37 -0500 From: Timothy Wegner <tim@tswegner.net> To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Fractint] Windows SDL Port Message-ID: <CAFLr277cNLr81UdFyWt+mVQV61KbF_6MWVy0L53beF4f5a8GuA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

First a huge disclaimer - Jonathan Osuch has a very demanding job and can only work on fractint a few hours a week, if that. So he can't respond to feedback in a timely way. This is not to say he doesn't want feedback.

That said, Jonathan has been working on an SDL (https://www.libsdl.org/) port of fractint that runs natively on Windows, including Windows 10. This effort is hiding in plain site on the website here: http://fractint.net/ftp/experimental/ Just download the SDL*.zip file, dump the contents somewhere, navigate to the fractint.exe file, and run it.

The SDL port can potentially be compiled on other platforms, e.g. Ubuntu Linux, but Jonathan doesn't have that working yet.

A couple of points.

This is a literal port of the classical DOS fractint, not a normal windows application. So the interface looks a lot like the DOS fractint, and is probably hard to use if you are not familiar with the classic version. This is not even a winfract port, which has some windows interface features.

This is alpha quality. An amazing amount works but some things (probably a lot of things) don't.

It would be interesting for some of you DOS fractint experts to give this a try. If it seems promising, you might consider some systematic testing (might be premature).

Since the list is quiet these days, I see no harm in discussing the results here. Probably you folks can help each other out, since Jonathan will only occasionally be able to chime in.

Tim

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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 12:42:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "mchris@value.net - Webmail" <mchris@value.net> To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] Windows SDL Port Message-ID: <2141376961.175806994.1502124165213.JavaMail.zimbra@value.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Wow! This is pretty exciting for me. Have been wanting to dip my toe back in but frankly time-slammed between work, getting my late parents' home ready for sale, and the upcoming eclipse. But I'll keep an eye on this and probably check it out after the dust settles in a month or two on my Win 10 PC.

Aloha, Bud

----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Wegner" <tim@tswegner.net> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 9:29:37 AM Subject: [Fractint] Windows SDL Port

First a huge disclaimer - Jonathan Osuch has a very demanding job and can only work on fractint a few hours a week, if that. So he can't respond to feedback in a timely way. This is not to say he doesn't want feedback.

That said, Jonathan has been working on an SDL (https://www.libsdl.org/) port of fractint that runs natively on Windows, including Windows 10. This effort is hiding in plain site on the website here: http://fractint.net/ftp/experimental/ Just download the SDL*.zip file, dump the contents somewhere, navigate to the fractint.exe file, and run it.

The SDL port can potentially be compiled on other platforms, e.g. Ubuntu Linux, but Jonathan doesn't have that working yet.

A couple of points.

This is a literal port of the classical DOS fractint, not a normal windows application. So the interface looks a lot like the DOS fractint, and is probably hard to use if you are not familiar with the classic version. This is not even a winfract port, which has some windows interface features.

This is alpha quality. An amazing amount works but some things (probably a lot of things) don't.

It would be interesting for some of you DOS fractint experts to give this a try. If it seems promising, you might consider some systematic testing (might be premature).

Since the list is quiet these days, I see no harm in discussing the results here. Probably you folks can help each other out, since Jonathan will only occasionally be able to chime in.

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