Tim,
Ironically, one hope for not abandoning our DOS/Windows user base might be to backport Xfractint to djgpp! I know Jonathan has worked on this with some success.
I didn't spend too much time on this because, at present, there would be no graphics modes. My immediate goal is to get patch 5 fixed so it can be released. IMO, the source to start any future work from is the experimental Allegro source. It is Rich's source with the integer math removed. It's a fairly simple matter to switch it back to the X11 GUI he was working on. Once I'm finished with patch 5, I can work on making it run. I was working on that just after I had put patch 4 into the code. That sort of explains why I hadn't updated the experimental source on the ftp site. Jonathan