Tim,
A client of mine has been experimenting with a 64 bit version of LINUX and is wondering if there has been a version of XFractint compiled under a 64 bit environment. Has this been done? Is it being considered for a future release?
Anyone with the appropriate target environment could try. Neither Jonathan (as far as I know) nor I have a 64 bit machine yet.
I got a new laptop last weekend with a 64 bit Athlon cpu. I'll be installing a 64 bit OS today, then we'll see. BTW, under XP, Fractint works on this machine. There are some glitches on the <v> screen, but I can view resolutions up to 1024x768. It has an ATI Mobile Radion X600 graphics chip. This machine has enough disk space so that I will be able to install the MS SDK and hopefully compile Winfract.
It should just be a matter of taking account of long being 64 bits instead of 32 bits. It's hard to know in advance how pervasive the changes would be.
From it's roots as a DOS medium memory model application, I'm sceptical that there's anything about 64 bit Linux that would benefit xfractint without a major rewrite - but then it would be a different program.
Switching over to wxWidgets might be a good excuse to do that. Jonathan