Richard wrote:
If so, could you share that on the list. Its hard to support the feature going forward to newer environments without understanding how people are using it in practice in the old environment.
The real solution isn't figuring out how to drag along DOS; the real solution is how to provide the feature in current operating environments.
The real solution is for one of the many billionaire/millionaire folk with spare money to fund the Fractint team in an effort to free Fractint of its DOS dependencies, and make it readily portable. In my opinion, in such a way that the fractal generation part can be a backend with a standard API for using it with a variety of frontends (GUI or text). Rework the back end to incorporate things like multithreading, using multiple cores, etc. Would be nice if I could run Fractint backend on my faster machines and run the UI at my little laptop. Apparently there's a slow-moving effort to produce a free 32-bit DOS <http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/>. Don't know how it might benefit Fractint, or if Fractint could even run under it. There's also an assortment of DOS extenders which maybe could help? <http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/dosextenders.shtml> -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community