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Update 2024-12-09 to SDL version
by Jonathan Osuch 23 Aug '25

23 Aug '25

Folks, An updated version of SDL Fractint has been uploaded to www.fractint.net. Fixes include: Fix to reduce CPU utilization when on text screens. Fixed the Plasma Fractal Type (again), so a non-standard fractint.cfg does not cause a crash. Look in the directory at: https://www.fractint.net/ftp/experimental/ For: Windows version (32-bit) is: SDL2-fractint-20.05alpha-2024-12-09.zip Pre-compiled 64-bit Linux version is: SDL2-Xfractint-20.05alpha-2024-12-09.tar.xz Jonathan

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XFractint SDL starts in small window
by david 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

I use a 4K display. I have xfract, the non-SDL Linux version, it accepts the "-geometry 3840x2160" command line option to use the full screen and works fine. XFractint SDL just reports an error and comes up in a little 920xsomething window. The window can't be resized. I had also added an entry to the fractint.cfg file so I could manually select the 4K resolution. When I start XFractint SDL and select that option, I sometimes get an error about "stack smashing detected" and the program doesn't start. And other times it simply returns to the existing window size with no changes. I'm running Debian Bookworm on a Ryzen 9 9950X CPU, AMD GPU, 128GB of memory, 728GB of space available on a 2TB NVME drive. Ideas? -- David W. Jones gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com "My password is the last 8 digits of π."

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Iterated Dynamics 1.1.1 hotfix release
by Richard 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

Hi All, When I added inline image markup for the HTML version of the help, I forgot to suppress them for in-program help resulting in some asserts in the debugger and junk output in the in-program help screens. This has been corrected in the hotfix release 1.1.1 that is available on github: <https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/iterated-dynamics/releases/tag/v1.1.1> Version 1.1.1 will upgrade version 1.0 or version 1.1 in place if you are using the Windows Installer (MSI) package. Thanks, -- Richard -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com>

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Re: Iterated Dynamics 1.1 released
by dastew dastew 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

thanks for your help. I tried Chrome and it works! I have used Fractint for years and years and a very grateful of your work. ------ Original Message ------ From: legalize(a)xmission.com To: fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, February 4th 2025, 12:55 Subject: [Fractint] Re: Iterated Dynamics 1.1 released Hi, In article <6159bb77.2d057.194ce0a56f6.Webtop.18(a)sympatico.ca>, dastew dastew writes: > I an using ubuntu 24.04 and firefox and I clicked on the download page > and all I get is: It's a bug in your browser. Try using one that is less buggy :) In plain text, the surrounding of a URL by <> is how the URL is distinguished from other text: The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the delimiters around URLs in free text "Uniform Resource Locators (RUL)" Your browser is just scraping along through the text and is heuristically looking for anything that starts with a URL prefix like https:// and considering everything up to the next whitespace character to be a URL. However, there's no point in downloading Iterated Dynamics 1.1 for ubuntu anyway because unix support won't be restored until 2.0. -- Richard -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book The Terminals Wiki The Computer Graphics Museum Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list -- fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com To unsubscribe send an email to fractint-leave(a)mailman.xmission.com

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Re: Iterated Dynamics 1.1 released
by Richard 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Hi, In article <6159bb77.2d057.194ce0a56f6.Webtop.18(a)sympatico.ca>, dastew dastew <dastew(a)sympatico.ca> writes: > I an using ubuntu 24.04 and firefox and I clicked on the download page > and all I get is: It's a bug in your browser. Try using one that is less buggy :) In plain text, the surrounding of a URL by <> is how the URL is distinguished from other text: The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the delimiters around URLs in free text "Uniform Resource Locators (RUL)" <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1738> Your browser is just scraping along through the text and is heuristically looking for anything that starts with a URL prefix like https:// and considering everything up to the next whitespace character to be a URL. However, there's no point in downloading Iterated Dynamics 1.1 for ubuntu anyway because unix support won't be restored until 2.0. -- Richard -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com>

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Iterated Dynamics 1.1 released
by Richard 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Hi All, Iterated Dynamics 1.1 has been released. The big ticket items are: From Paul de Leeuw: - Burning Ship fractal type added (type=burning-ship). - An implementation of the perturbation algorithm for accelerating deep zooms under aribtrary precision. Implemented for type=mandel and type=burning-ship. From me: - Mouse support restored, following the FRACTINT mouse interaction model - Qualify of life improvements for disk video mode to support creating animations. - Many other small changes and improvements! Download the release from here: <https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/iterated-dynamics/releases> Online help here with full list of 1.1 changes: <https://legalizeadulthood.github.io/iterated-dynamics/> Discuss the release here: <https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/iterated-dynamics/discussions> Bug reports here: <https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/iterated-dynamics/issues> Enjoy! -- Richard -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com>

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