. following this win-10 issue, I will just say that I have given up on microshaft, if possible, for good. I am still using XP on a couple of my systems - and quite satisfied. One of them runs fractint no problem, the other doesn't - so it must be hardware issue. I never bothered with any OS after XP, although I have win-7 at work. I am sick of this forced upgrades every 2 years, just when you start getting comfy with the OS, and the lack of backwards compatibility is deliberate treachery on Mr. Bill's part. Sooo - I have been migrating to Linux, about 80% complete now. It is much leaner than windoze; I just made a 32K frame animation at 1400 resolution - the file barely fits on a DVD. WinXP can not open and play it, but in Linux it cruises no problem! I installed DOSbox, but haven't had time to play much with it yet. I am pondering trying xfractint now, or maybe wait till it gets more refined. Whatever. As for sstools.ini - I have always had all my fractint files in one same directory - so no need to mess with file paths; seems to work better. And it shouldn't have lines that aren't being used, you can put a semicolon in front to comment them out. If you are rendering from a PAR file the PAR values will override the sstools.ini - some people don't know that and it leads to errors and confusion.. .
On 07.10.2015 20:42, JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net wrote:
I never bothered with any OS after XP, although I have win-7 at work. I am sick of this forced upgrades every 2 years, just when you start getting comfy with the OS, and the lack of backwards compatibility is deliberate treachery on Mr. Bill's part. Fully agree although the W7 support has been extended to 2020 - see below copy of the official Microsoft info:
Windows 7 * Service Pack 1 <http://windows.microsoft.com/de-de/windows7/learn-how-to-install-windows-7-service-pack-1-sp1> 13. Januar 2015 14. Januar 2020 : I´m still using XP on one machine thanks to the XP Dos mode. There´s no security risk whatsoever as long as Bitdefender Free do not end their support. Their triple defense - Mainprotection, Traffic light and Quickscan as Firefox plugins works perfectly and I experience very few attacks - compared to W7. Albrecht
Microsoft is already working on Windows 21. It will be special, especially for suckers. The iPhone 30 has an app for your vacation space station. The only fractals program I had was shareware DOS 5 on a floppy disc. The work many have done with fractals is astounding. Cheers On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Multifrac@t-online.de < Multifrac@t-online.de> wrote:
On 07.10.2015 20:42, JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net wrote:
I never bothered with any OS after XP, although I have win-7 at work. I am sick of this forced upgrades every 2 years, just when you start getting comfy with the OS, and the lack of backwards compatibility is deliberate treachery on Mr. Bill's part.
Fully agree although the W7 support has been extended to 2020 - see below copy of the official Microsoft info:
Windows 7 *
Service Pack 1 < http://windows.microsoft.com/de-de/windows7/learn-how-to-install-windows-7-service-pack-1-sp1>
13. Januar 2015
14. Januar 2020
: I´m still using XP on one machine thanks to the XP Dos mode. There´s no security risk whatsoever as long as Bitdefender Free do not end their support. Their triple defense - Mainprotection, Traffic light and Quickscan as Firefox plugins works perfectly and I experience very few attacks - compared to W7. Albrecht
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On 10/12/2015 02:56 AM, Ram Peloquin wrote:
Microsoft is already working on Windows 21. It will be special, especially for suckers.
I understand it will be fully integrated with Microsoft's upcoming chain of Old-West-mining-themed casinos, MicroShaft.
The iPhone 30 has an app for your vacation space station.
Yah, Apple's 3D virtual reality suit is a marvel! Although they still fake free-fall by dropping you down shafts which they drilled to facilitate communication between Apple hardware developers and Hell.
The only fractals program I had was shareware DOS 5 on a floppy disc.
Ages ago, I wrote a fractal generator in 6510 Assembly language for Commodore 64. It took almost a day to render a single 320*240 Mandelbrot.
The work many have done with fractals is astounding.
It certainly is!
: I´m still using XP on one machine thanks to the XP Dos mode. There´s no security risk whatsoever as long as Bitdefender Free do not end their support. Their triple defense - Mainprotection, Traffic light and Quickscan as Firefox plugins works perfectly and I experience very few attacks - compared to W7. Albrecht
Even more secure: Don't connect your Fractint machine to the network at all. ;) -- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com
On 13.10.2015 05:16, david wrote:
Ages ago, I wrote a fractal generator in 6510 Assembly language for Commodore 64. It took almost a day to render a single 320*240 Mandelbrot.
The work many have done with fractals is astounding. Long time ago I wrote a fractal program for the atari xl computer, it´s still running! It was written in clean assembler and reasonably fast. It was even capable of doing my own kind of Julia and a basic 3d generation. To display it on my flatscreen I use the input of an an old video recorder and and the EXT connection. I think there is a special adapter for these old 8bit computers, does anyone know more about this subject? Albrecht
On 10/13/2015 03:34 AM, Multifrac@t-online.de wrote:
On 13.10.2015 05:16, david wrote:
Ages ago, I wrote a fractal generator in 6510 Assembly language for Commodore 64. It took almost a day to render a single 320*240 Mandelbrot.
The work many have done with fractals is astounding. Long time ago I wrote a fractal program for the atari xl computer, it´s still running! It was written in clean assembler and reasonably fast. It was even capable of doing my own kind of Julia and a basic 3d generation. To display it on my flatscreen I use the input of an an old video recorder and and the EXT connection. I think there is a special adapter for these old 8bit computers, does anyone know more about this subject?
Don't know about that, but I think he's connecting the Atari XL's standard TV video out to a video recorder, then using the video recorder's EXT (external?) connection to connect it to his flatscreen. Here's a forum discussion on how to connect an Atari 800XL to a flatscreen TV: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/235194-trying-to-connect-my-800xl-to-a-fla... If that works, blame the magik power of Google. -- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com
On 14.10.2015 09:16, david wrote:
Don't know about that, but I think he's connecting the Atari XL's standard TV video out to a video recorder, then using the video recorder's EXT (external?) connection to connect it to his flatscreen.
Here's a forum discussion on how to connect an Atari 800XL to a flatscreen TV:
https://atariage.com/forums/topic/235194-trying-to-connect-my-800xl-to-a-fla...
If that works, blame the magik power of Google.
Exactly! Thanks, David. Let you know if it works. As I still have the source code maybe It´s worth the effort to have a look and maybe transfer some of these early ideas to the present. Btw these old programs including "Instant Music" are stored on chips connected using the parallel slot of the Atari XL. It was a great machine in it´s days. Albrecht
A directed electromagnetic pulse would be the high colonic the tech world needs. Computers on 95, XP and 7. I almost cried when the Dos 5 Win 3.1 machine battery could not be replaced. Lotus Ami Pro, Broderbund Kid Pix and Fractals lost their efficient homes. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:16 PM, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
On 10/12/2015 02:56 AM, Ram Peloquin wrote:
Microsoft is already working on Windows 21. It will be special, especially for suckers.
I understand it will be fully integrated with Microsoft's upcoming chain of Old-West-mining-themed casinos, MicroShaft.
The iPhone 30 has an app for your vacation space station.
Yah, Apple's 3D virtual reality suit is a marvel! Although they still fake free-fall by dropping you down shafts which they drilled to facilitate communication between Apple hardware developers and Hell.
The only fractals program I had was shareware DOS 5 on a floppy
disc.
Ages ago, I wrote a fractal generator in 6510 Assembly language for Commodore 64. It took almost a day to render a single 320*240 Mandelbrot.
The work many have done with fractals is astounding.
It certainly is!
: I´m still using XP on one machine thanks to the XP Dos mode.
There´s no security risk whatsoever as long as Bitdefender Free do not end their support. Their triple defense - Mainprotection, Traffic light and Quickscan as Firefox plugins works perfectly and I experience very few attacks - compared to W7. Albrecht
Even more secure: Don't connect your Fractint machine to the network at all. ;)
-- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com
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