Tim,
OK. Now I am confused about what we propose to start with. Do you propose to convert your Allegro version (based on Rich's changes) back to X, and have that be our starting point? Does that have all the changes of the latest patch?
There is no conversion to speak of. It is a matter of changing a define and removing a couple of lines of code added to fractint.c. That's the beauty of this interface. The version on my hard drive is at patch 4. It probably doesn't run, but that is because I broke Rich's code (just need to find where) and I updated the version of Allegro and haven't gotten things running again. Before we decide what to do, more people should look at the structure of Rich's interface code and provide comments.
If we are stopping work on the DOS version, I won't try to get the DOS version compiling with Watcom.
I don't know that we will stop working on the DOS version. Although, this may be as good a time as any. We do need to decide on a compiler for the DOS/Win environment. Is the Watcom compiler compatible with nasm? BTW, please take a look at the changes to makefcfg in the patch 5 dif. Let me know if it makes any sense to do this. Jonathan