Who says you´re not an expert.? It works, my splash screen shows up after start !! Thanks a lot !!! Albrecht On 29.01.2018 21:46, Bill Jemison wrote:
albrecht - it sounds to me as if you don't have your fractint files in the place(s) that DOSbox is expecting to find them. (I don't think Mr. Gates is conspiring on this).
Here is my file structure:
1)As you can see, I have my fractint versions in separate directories under K:\fractals. So, as shown, version 2004p14 is in K:\fractals\f2004p14.
2)As you can also see, I have all the associated files for fractint contained in _that directory_, including fractint.cfg and sstools.ini. I realize that it is certainly possible that you have a more complicated setup for your file structure, but this setup works for me, and perhaps if you could try copying your files into a similar structure just to get Dosbox going you could adjust from there.
3)My Dosbox configuration file contains the following - located at the end of the file:
**************************************** [autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # You can put your MOUNT lines here.
#### Mount a disk D and point it to the fractals directory #### Mount D K:\fractals
#### go to that disk #### d:
#### change the directory to the version of fractint I want to run #### cd\f2004p14
#### I use this as a toggle between versions #### #cd\f1961p
#### enter the startup command for fractint #### fractint.exe textsafe=save maxhistory=100
*************************************************
I'll admit that I am not at all an expert on setting up fractint. I don't use any autoexec files to run it (other than the autoexec section of DOSBox SVN-Daum config file shown above). I've got a one track mind in regards to fractint. I am only really interested in audio, and this setup works for me.
I think it is informative to note the following:
If you contrast my K:\fractals\f2004p14 directory to the K:\fractals\f1961p directory you will see that the K:\fractals\f1961p doesn't contain all the fractint related files and directories:
This setup means that the only par file it finds is 8_30.par. It is blind to the other pars in any other directory, meaning that they should be included explicitly in all directories which fractint is run from. I am sure there are ways to get around this, but I don't know how, and as long as I can get things working as I am able to, I am willing to maybe not have the most efficient setup.
I hope this helps. If you have questions ask...I'll try to answer.
Bill Audio Fractals <https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/home>
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Albrecht Niekamp <Multifrac@t-online.de <mailto:Multifrac@t-online.de>> wrote:
Thanks, Bill but did not work as exspected - must have some other reason, possibly user rights, after all. Re multifrac pars pls experiment with memory settings in config (umb, ems etc)- ems should be set to false if I remember well.
On 27.01.2018 23:37, Bill Jemison wrote:
However, I have not been able to reliably run multifrac pars, as I have said previously. I hope this helps you in some way.