Hurrah! David gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 23 Apr 04, at 17:37, Chris Curnow wrote:
Just a quick note to say that all has been resolved. I found the Win 98 Startup diskette, (all the way back from 2001!). Sys'ed a new floppy and it booted fine. Luckily the XP stuff has been loaded onto a new NTFS hard disk leaving all my Win98, including Fractint, on the old hard disk. So now the boot disk sees my E: drive as C: and everything seems to work fine. Thanks for your time folks.
From: "SherLok Merfy" Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:11 PM
While I would recommend the DOS boot disk (if only because you can launch Linux _or_ Win32S from it), and the directions are in your helpfiles (search for DOS), the last time I checked, Windows XP with FRACTINT was just messy, not entirely incompatible. I might, someday again, download and unzip FRACTINT into it's own directory, then select automatic EMS and XMS memory types under the properties of the icon for it (right-click on the icon, then guess what might work nicely).
The problems are nothing that a restart won't fix, much as the higher resolutions you may hav trouble using are nothing that you can't get with disk-video or batch-mode and any browser.