G'day guys, I was able to get a platform working in 32 bit windows and true colour, but it is limited in the rich functionality of fractint. I guess we have to make a decision about the easiest way to proceed. Many have tried to port the existing 16 bit code to 32 bits and it has failed. I wonder if we can start with my code that works well on XP and otther 32 bit windows systems and port one function at a time. At least we can keep up with the operating systems that Micro$not are releasing and growing towards a more final solution. We are falling way behind. 256 colours, 16 bit code and DOS, just don't cut it that well any more. Comments welcome. Best regards, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul de Leeuw Computers NSW Central Coast, Australia Email: pdeleeuw@deleeuw.com.au www: < http://www.deleeuw.com.au> ABN 72 360 822 562 ---------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: fractdev-bounces+pdeleeuw=telstra.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:fractdev-bounces+pdeleeuw=telstra.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Wednesday, 25 October 2006 8:29 AM To: Fractint developer's list Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Who is working on WinFract? In article <453E4AB5.567.187CCC@twegner.swbell.net>, "Tim Wegner" <twegner@swbell.net> writes:
Obviously Fractint/Winfract would benefit by being ported to a more modern environment, but this is an abstract discussion unless one has both lots of skill and lots of time not to mention lots of commitment. Worthy starts have been made over the years by a number of people, some of whom frequent this forum. All of them give up some fraction of Fractint's features in order to move to the new environment.
The attempt I made gave up no features, but didn't ever get merged into any of the existing CVS code branches. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> _______________________________________________ Fractdev mailing list Fractdev@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractdev