Fractint version 20.3, both DOS and Linux, is now available at www.fractint.org. Note that this is the float only version. What's new: Incremented the version number to accommodate backwards compatibility for the inside=atan and outside=atan options. Fixed inside=atan and outside=atan to use the full color palette instead of limiting to 180 colors. Added Charlie Chernohorsky's virtual screen zoombox fix. Added Gerald Dobiasovsky's fixes for the demo key files needed because of menu prompt changes and pan/zoom size changes. Fixed evolver parameter entry. Fixed hypercomplex fractal type to turn off symmetry when a cj parameter is used. Fixed the plasma type to show the value of the parameter that is actually used in the image generation. Fixed the plasma type so that a parameter file uses the colors included in the parameter entry instead of the default colors. Revised the plasma type prompt to reflect the values that can actually be used. Increased the Lsystem line length from 160 characters to 255 characters. Fixed the browser so that it recognized the fractal type stored in images. Fixed the Xfractint FPUcplxdiv and FPUcplxlog routines in fpu087.c to match the Fractint assembler code. Modified the Xfractint resume code to remove the Xfractint specific sections since they are no longer needed (gcc macros match MSC macros). I took out the fix for spaces in parameter entry names because it broke batch files. Fixed that, but then formula names were broke. So I gave up. Still thinking about it, however. Jonathan
Jonathan, some modes of the 3d projection scheme are broken in the new version (both light-source modes and all modes for spherical projection seem to be ok, though). All other modes save "solid fill" don't show anything on the screen, the latter does paint bars on it, but not as expected (i.e. do set all rotations and roughness to zero - it still paints bars, although one expects only dots). Ah, yes - should have written this before starting to whine: Thanks for all the work you have put into the program these past years! Regards, Gerald
On Monday 19 January 2004 6:25 pm, Gerald K. Dobiasovsky wrote:
some modes of the 3d projection scheme are broken in the new version (both light-source modes and all modes for spherical projection seem to be ok, though).
All other modes save "solid fill" don't show anything on the screen, the latter does paint bars on it, but not as expected (i.e. do set all rotations and roughness to zero - it still paints bars, although one expects only dots).
This probably happened when we took out the integer code. The Xfractint code is broken, too. I'll look at it. Jonathan
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