Bill,
Although I was sort of responsible for the ORBITSAVE=sound feature, I haven't used it for years - since I was using it to be transformed into midi files in the late 90's or early 2000's. Anyway, I was checking today to see if it (fractint v 20.04.14) operated as expected, using DOSBox. It seems to work fine - once I was able to locate where the txt file was saved. However, I can't remember how to turn off the ORBITSAVE=sound from the command line - even restarting via <ins> doesn't clear it from writing the txt file. I shut down DOSBox and restarted it and fractint, then generated the default mandelbrot. No sound parameters were invoked at all, but still the SOUNDxxx.txt file was produced...empty, but still being made.
How did you turn orbitsave=sound on? Put it in sstools.ini? Otherwise, shutting down DOSBox and restarting should have worked.
Can you refresh my memory as to how to turn this off? Do we need a command line such as ORBITSAVE=off? I'm really not keen on generating a new .txt file every time I use fractint<g>.
Well, that's ugly. Ideally, you should be able to press <G> to bring up the prompt screen and then enter orbitsave=no to turn it off. However, the original orbitsave function was to cause IFS and LORENZ types to output an acrospin file. The orbitsave=sound feature commandeered the variable and provided no way to turn it off. I will fix it in the SDL version. Jonathan