RE: Gnofract 4D ... I am using version 3.13 (It was the version that Fedora's package manager had in the library, I have not tried to install the latest version 3.14.1) There are notes on the sourceforge.net site about DEB packages and the newer versions for Fedora, they say to install from source. The 3.13 version works (with a few bugs) for what I have been doing, It does not support all the Fractint functions (but has most of them) I have not tried it on other Linux OS versions I set the machine up that it is installed on just to do Fractals and it is mostly stable so I have not experimented on other OS. There are notes on the sourceforge site that some of the authors have compiled it on Win XP but I have not tried it. I also have it installed on an old Lenovo laptop under Fedora (my Linux of choice for most things) There is a post on the sourceforge site that says they compiled it on a Ubuntu 12.10 system and it ran OK (I think Ubuntu has it roots still mostly in the Deb family) (It also said that the Deb package failed to install, so you may have to compile it from source on your Deb system) ----- Original Message ----- From: "david" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Hi
Unfortunately, it won't install due to dependency on "python <<2.7". I have Python 2.7.3 installed (Sid now has 2.7.5). Couldn't find anything on the Gnofract4D site about how to deal with that problem. Maybe it works with any Python 2.7 but their DEB package has its dependency info wrong?
Oh, and here's "here", left it out below:
http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/
Apparently the DEBs available on the Gofract4D site haven't made it into Debian yet.
On 06/08/2013 07:15 PM, david wrote:
Gnofract? GNUFract? Can't find a trace of it in Debian repository.
Ah, found it here. Thanks, looks like it might be fun!
On 06/08/2013 01:49 PM, David W Riccio wrote:
I have been using Fractint under a copy of Microsoft Dos 6.1 under Oracle VM VitualBox and it works fine. I also have been using Gnofract 4D (Fedora 17 64bit on an Intel Dual Core with 2gb of ram) ... Same machine as the Oracle VM VitualBox It is a great free upgrade from Fractint and supports most of the Fractint features. It will allow you 16bit color and images sizes that are very large (I have generated 4000x6000 size images with no issues)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Grasso" <nick@nickgrasso.com> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Hi
The easiest way to run Fractint is to use DosBox (http://www.dosbox.com). DosBox is easy to install and use, runs on all versions of Windows, and Fractint runs fine in it, albeit rather slowly. You can also try one of the SVN builds (whatever that means?) of DosBox which have more capability, that is, runs Fractint in 1600x1200. See http://ykhwong.x-y.net
The most capable native Windows program for fractals that I know of is UltraFractal (http://www.ultrafractal.com). It is about 90 percent compatible with Fractint, that is, it reads par, frm, etc. files. It has a huge number of options but costs USD $39/69/129 depending on which version you want.
Nick
On 6/7/2013 1:13 PM, Ram Peloquin wrote:
No longer have a DOS/Win 95 computer. Fractint may have been the program I thoroughly enjoyed. I just booted up an XP desktop and probably have a Win 98. What program will run and 'cycle' fractal creations in either system?
Thanks,
Richard
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