Jonathan wrote:
Personally, I won't be using a MS product to port Xfractint to Windows. Subject to change under the right conditions, but for now I'd rather use djgpp compilers/assemblers.
I share your prejudices <grin!> but I'm not so sure that your goals and Paul's are so different. Code not linked to the user interface should work with either compiler. FWIW, Paul's approach in manpwin is to program to the Win32 interface, so the code should compile with other compilers. I'm not sure what he is proposing now, though. I'm sure he'll tell us. I am curious to see what Paul has in mind. I'm personally not interested in targetting only Windows, but if we could actually get to where various versions share code (like Xfractint and Fractint did, and to a much lesser extent Winfract and Fractint did) then the work on various platforms could support each other. I don't think that is a far fetched goal. I have an old Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler (version 4.0 or 5.0) so I could follow along. But I'm not personally interested in learning Windows programming. Tim