Richard, all, You said:
...I am working on a design/prototype for a compiler for the formulas that will produce native code at the moment. That's gelling together nicely...
This is great news! Presumably this will solve the issue where certain fractal formulas aren't handled properly -- e.g.: MandelbrotBC3. I calculate each of Jim Muth's FOTDs (at a higher resolution than Jim does) with Fractint for Windows beta 5 and I really enjoy its ability to run in the Windows environment. When Fint4WinB5's image differs from Jim's image, I revert to calculating the image I post using DOS Fractint -- calculated using Disk Video mode -- because I have problems with my graphics card at higher resolutions.
I put in time on it when I can... I hope you can also address the aspect ratio problem of rotated images as I documented in your Iterated Dynamics Issue Tracker. I also gave a quick overview of the problem with some screen caps:
http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/Rotated_zmBoxes_DOS_Fint4Win_beta 5.html or: http://tinyurl.com/zoom-boxes - Hal Lane ######################### # hallane@earthlink.net # #########################