hi all FractInt fans, A 100 % my opinion, Tony! At 14:33 24/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
As the humble benficiary of "free" software, I would feel it would be presumtuous and arrogant of me to "demand" upgrades.
On the other hand I probably share with other happy, grateful, Fractint users a yearning for at least some "improvements" that would make Fractint a more perfect piece of software.
A.) Improving and speeding up the image rendering time, especially when rendering to a large file for printng.
B.) A feature that allowed editng and changing formulas and parameters "on the fly". (I presently kludge my way through that using "Paste & Go").
I hope, this will come someday..
C.) A more universal video module that works in W95/W98/W2K/WXP, and with the newer video cards.
I would definitely appreciate and use any "free" upgrades when and as they appeare. I would also gladly "pay" for the upgrades as well. I paid for UF 2 & 3, and I still use Fractint more than I use UF.
Fractint has provided me with 1000s of hours of entertainment and pleasure.
oh yeahhhhh! even more!!
If Spanky Industires (Grin) Stone Soup Software Group (Are they Still alive) or whoever were to offer a 32 bit "Windoze 98/95/2000/XP" version of FRactint that still had all the features found in the original DOS version of Fractint I would definitely pay for it. Why not?
It's one thing to sit and whine and beg for "freebies", but if all of us chimed in and said that we'd actually "PAY" for these upgrades, then I suspect certain software developing types would take heed and get "inspired" to do the work that needs to get done.
So let's do a "straw pole" to establish who here is willing to "PAY" for an upgrade to Fractint?
Money Talks!
TG
cheers, Guy