Jonathan,
I've decided it's too much work to split the patch into two pieces. > So, an almost ready patch is in the fractint directory. I've added the docs (or at least the important stuff). Haven't tried it on Xfractint, yet. That will probably happen Saturday morning.
I have two problems. One is that when I try any of the new virtual modes, the screen is trashed when I press <ESC>. (Perhaps I need a frasrc.zip file to make sure I have applied all the diffs right, but I *think* I reconstructed the sources OK. The second is that I am not exactly sure how the virtual mode is supposed to work. Could you give me a little tutorial? If it's in the docs, just tell me where to look. If the virtual mode is what I think it is, it's a really good idea. It would be wonderful to decouple fractint's capability from the video mode and allow the fractal to be bigger than the version shown on the screen. POVray works this way. On the other hand, it woul;d sure be much easier to imp-lement this once we're out from under DOS. Gee it's hard to work in a DOS window when it's been a while!! Tim