I am delighted to hear from Paul de Leeuw, and am equally delighted, Paul, to hear you are still working on your fractal program. Marcus's comments had me laughing out loud. I have no idea what if anything I will further contribute to Fractint. But, Marcus, I am amazed you know my plans! No need to feel any sorrow about one of the oldest and longest-maintained open source projects, which by rights, was obsolete a decade ago. Mystery of mysteries, it's life continues on. The folks who post in the Fractint list amaze me. I, for one, certainly would not rule out more development, but neither am I promising it. FreeDOS is a case in point, as nearly a decade went by between versions 1.0 and 1.1. Interesting how some very talented folks apparently nostalgic for their DOS applications have extended the lives of old software with DOSBox. At the moment I am indeed working on my old computing platforms, a necessity if I wish to run Fractint or recompile it.. As I reported earlier, I can run FreeDos/Fractint from a USB drive on two of my three computers. Today I wrestled hard with the middle computer. My problems were worse than not being able to boot from the USB drive, Fractint's video modes crashed under FreeDOS on that machine. No such behavior on the other two computers (both the older and newer one.) I did get far enough to learn that the (cheap, but fairly new) Nvidia board did NOT have better VESA support than the ATI graphics on the other two. My scientific curiosity is nearly (but not quite) exhausted with the trials and tribulations of the middle machine, so I will just use the other two. These are home built machines with removable drives, so I have a lot of flexibility. Tim