Hi Timothy,
Marcus is an amazing contributor to
ManpWIN source and ideas. It has been a privilege to get his inspiration and
enthusiasm.
ManpWIN is alive and well.
Best regards,
Paul.
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Paul de Leeuw Computers NSW Central Coast,
Australia
Email:
pdeleeuw@deleeuw.com.au
www:
<http://www.deleeuw.com.au>
ABN
72 360 822 562
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[mailto:fractdev-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Timothy Wegner
Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2014 7:07
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To: Fractint developer's list
Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Sorry, but
Fractint is not slowing, but rapidly dying
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