If you're virtualising anyway, why not use FreeDos? This is (largely) open source. I've just tried this to see if it works. It does. Subjectively, it's nowhere near as fast as XFractint, and SOI in particular is really slow. I would send you the appliance in open virtualisation format, if you like. It's 33.1 MiB. Just a bit worried about copyright before I dump it on the Internet, although it should all be OK, I think. Is it OK to bundle Freedos + Fractint in this way? Kind regards, Rupert On 18/12/13 01:05, Jay Litwyn wrote:
I tried VirtualBOX by Oracle. I am presently trying to figure out how to enable virtual cores, because it might let me run Win98, Second Edition. I am running windows 8 (~32 gig on disk, 1 gig in RAM (HS)), so I do not even hav the option of XP mode. Bill Gates is a greedy %#$@^*, too. I deleted eighty percent of the stuff on my startup screen, because it wuz selling me stuff that duz not do what I want, and I totally remapped what opens what. My support for Micro$oft haz ended. If I do not need any features in Nero Ten that I did not hav with Nero Six, then I will boot this thing with the recovery disks for my old desktop (Windows XP), and go with a LOT of freeware support for XP (and Linux VirtualBoxes). Decision: 2014-03-25 (my birthday).
I would love to run F4WB5, and it duzn't hav either the palette editor or the aspect ratio right, so I do not like saving parameter files under it.
On 2013-12-17 1:39 AM, Hal Lane wrote:
Has anyone tried to run DOS Fractint in the CMD window in the WinXP mode of Windows 7 Professional 32-bit or 64-bit -- and if so -- which one?
I hoping to gracefully retire my WinXP before Microsoft ends support in April 2014...
- Hal Lane
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