Rich wrote:
This obsession with supporting ancient hardware is holding back FractInt from evolving into better code that takes advantage of current hardware.
This is one of those puzzling statements. Who exactly is obsessed? This statement is poorly written and dead wrong, but I will not bother to correct it further.
Frankly, supporting old hardware is nowhere on my agenda.
I will not use bloated software that forces buying new hardware. Which is not to say software should have to support really old hardware. Since the computer industry moves rapidly, five-year-old hardware is probably at risk, but is still new enough to deserve support. My newest computer (not counting my wife's laptop) is a home built computer that is around five years old. I will be evaluating the new Windows fractint port on that machine. I have no problem with running a wide variety of new software on this machine. Everyone should understand that Rich has strong opinions and states them with with force, as is his right. Everyone should also be clear that he speaks for himslf only and not for Jonathan or I. There aren't enough hours in the day to respond point by point, nor would any good be accomplished by such an effort. Tim