On Tuesday 26 February 2002 21:27, Tim wrote:
I have a modest proposal. Why not make the float only sources the main sources? I actually thought we would do that a long time ago. I don't think the integer math has any future, and every minute you spend on maintaining both versions, is a minute you are not spending bringing the assembler speedups to the 32 bit versions, which is the main obstacle to leaving the medium memory model behind.
It's just a question of the best uses of a scarce commodity, developer time.
But since you are doing the work, it's your call, not mine. :-)
Then what of Xfractint? It is based on the integer/float version of Fractint. I do have a float only version, but it has been mangled by attempting to get the Allegro graphics package to work. The X-Window interface is still broken in it as well. And, even with that, the code is still vastly different from the float-only version. I do have the Xfractint float-only base source files that I started from, but they are at version 20.0 patch 11. My intention was to get the Allegro version (float-only) of Xfractint working, then port it to djgpp to get back to the DOS/Windows environment. Jonathan Why didn't they call it PaneLess instead of Lindows? Then it could have been interpreted as Painless or Payin' less.