JoTz, In your par file, you have the following comment: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All versions of fractint past 1995 freeze when encounter deep minibrots; I don't recall the exact depth where it starts. Since few people do really deep zooms, this "software issue" was apparently never reported and thus continues to persist. The last sequence in this viddie was thus done on fractint95, a little slower rendering but otherwise essentially the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I think I can explain. I don't believe that there is such an arbitrary precision bug in later versions of Fractint. In your deepest zoom at a magnification of e^89, and using a maxiter of over 2 billion, the image does "freeze" once the showdot reaches the edge of the minibrot. But, unless you had a very powerful machine (much faster than your P3-733), it would be expected to take a very long time per pixel, and thus appear to freeze up. Lee Skinner