January 2006 - Fractdev - mailman.xmission.com

Athlon woes
by Tim Wegner 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I built a computer last year using an Athlon with a Gigabyte motherboard. I had troubles with Fractint - with any SVGA mode the computer would hang after the completion of the image. I always assumed this was an Windows XP issue. Today I tried Fractint with freedos on the same computer, with the same results. So apparently it's an incompatability bgetween fractint and my compuiter. Truecolor, 320x200, diskvideo, and even tweaked modes work. SCGA modes fail, and only after the image completes. This behavior appears to have nothing to do with recent versions. Has anyone else had trouble with Athlon? Hmm, maybe I need to look at bios settings. Tim

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scrolling screen
by Tim Wegner 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Jonathan, I'm (finally) looking into the scrolling screen again. I did a CVS update and picked up some of your changes. At first glance I didn't mind the way I had it as much as I remembered, but the emails are really no longer appropriate. If you have any more thoughts let me know. Right now I'm leaning back toward having the "primary authors" just being whoever is currently active again, which is just the two of us. If you have any opinions about this let me know. Tim Tim

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Fractint and XP
by Jonathan Osuch 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Tim, Have you had a chance to compile Fractint under XP? I just got my laptop setup to use XP and the complile works but I have to manually copy the helpdefs.h file to the correct directory since the move command does not work in a batch file. It (move) works fine on the command line. I also had trouble compiling initially, but that turned out to be a problem with the path variable. Have you made any progress with the docs? Jonathan

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