Fractint and Win XP
Tim, I installed Fractint on an HP laptop running XP today and had no problems. All the video resolutions I tried worked. Created a short cut to the executable and set the properties the same as for any other Windows version. Jonathan
I installed Fractint on an HP laptop running XP today and had no problems. All the video resolutions I tried worked. Created a short cut to the executable and set the properties the same as for any other Windows version.
That's good, maybe results are very dependent on video board support. There's an inconsistency in the way the old Xfractint floatonly version handles truecolor and the way the regular version does. Should I keep the truecolor tplus stubs in? They need to be there as long as the DOS float-only version has them. I wouldn't onject to removing the truecolor drivers, since they are very old, and have some code we don't have the copyright to. Tim
On Monday 01 April 2002 05:55 pm, Tim wrote:
There's an inconsistency in the way the old Xfractint floatonly version handles truecolor and the way the regular version does.
Should I keep the truecolor tplus stubs in? They need to be there as long as the DOS float-only version has them.
I wouldn't onject to removing the truecolor drivers, since they are very old, and have some code we don't have the copyright to.
Take them out. We could remove the printer code, too. I can see a time when the DOS version is completely unsupported during the time that Xfractint is being ported back to an MS environment. Not that anyone would notice. Jonathan
Jonathan wrote:
Take them out. We could remove the printer code, too.
I can see a time when the DOS version is completely unsupported during the time that Xfractint is being ported back to an MS environment. Not that anyone would notice.
Agreed. I can pull out the Targa stuff from all the versions together. That will make life simpler. Then if we abandon the integer version, there will basically be one set of sources since Xfractint and fractint share common code unchanged. Tim
On Monday 01 April 2002 07:58 pm, Tim wrote:
Agreed. I can pull out the Targa stuff from all the versions together. That will make life simpler. Then if we abandon the integer version, there will basically be one set of sources since Xfractint and fractint share common code unchanged.
Close. There is still the experimental code, which will make porting easier. Make sure you are only pulling out the code for the Targa video board. I seem to recall some truecolor code for creating tga files. Jonathan
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