Just for fun after reading of Linux trials and tribulations, I decided to try fractint under dosbox under linux myself (I keep several Fedora and a Mint boxen lying around for several purposes). This report is from Fedora. I tried downloading the dosbox svn version of dosbox, but gave up fairly quickly, couldn't figure it out. Probably not hard if you know how. I may try again later. Next I tried sudo yum install dosbox I downloaded fractint into a /home/twegner/fractint directory I ran dosbox, but it comes up with some infernal keymapper and I could not change drives to where fractint was inside dosbox for lack of being able to type ":". So I looked in .dosbox in my home directory, edited the dosbox-0.74.conf file, and added these lines at the bottom in the [autoexec] section: mount c /home/twegner/fractint c: Then when I run dosbox, I can type in fractint and things seem to work fine. Admittedly this is a fairly shallow test. Probably I would have to figure out what was going on with the keyboard mapper to really use Fractint. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Nick Grasso <nick@nickgrasso.com> wrote:
If you are buying the PC just for Fractint, I would recommend just using DOS. If you are just running Fractint, why do you need a GUI?
I tried Fractint on 2 or 3 XP machines but could never get it to run completely. I think it only worked with 360x400 video mode. Other people have reported that they got it to work with XP. I suppose it depends on your video card.
DOSBox worked fine however, but it was slow. I am now running Windows 7 and DOSBox works fine although it is slow.
If you want a GUI, install DOSBox and see if the speed is acceptable to you.
Nick
On 1/30/2015 2:32 PM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
I haven't been able to use Fractint since back when I had Win98 & NT; it won't run on my WinXP-MediaEd now (Intel machine), though I understand XP may work with Fractint on an AMD machine.
My question is this: Which OS does Fractint "like" the best... Which OS will it run the best on??? [Unless Fractint runs much, much better on DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, etc.), I would really prefer an OS with a GUI... for my sake.]
So, what do you think?: Win98; Win98SE; ME; NT3-4; 2000(NT5.0); WinXP-Media-Pro-SP3; 7... ? 32-bit?
I've just ordered an old AMD PC just for Fractint (Dell OptiPlex 740 Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz 1GB 80GB CDRW/DVD XP Professional Desktop) ... I don't know the Video card yet. There's a chance Fractint may work on this AMD with WinXP Pro, but what do you think would be the best OS for Fractint on this machine?
Thanks much for your suggestions!! ...Knute
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