I briefly tried Jonathan's latest sdl version ( http://fractint.net/ftp/experimental/SDL2-fractint-20.05alpha.zip) including disk video and had no immediate troubles. Probably time to make a PAR file with a variety of things to test for regression purposes. Note that Jonathan has not been changing the file name when he re-uploads. I'm more or less home-bound because of Tracy here in Houston, but (knock on wood) high and dry with power and internet. We are housing some friends who were flooded out nearby. Despite near constant light rain, Braes Bayou has not gone up again so far. Currently it is right at the top of it's channel. We are up quite a bit from there, but Saturday morning to water had crept up our street to near our house. The storm is moving with (bad metaphor alert) glacial slowness. There probably plenty of tie-ins between Hurricane' and fractals. The connection on my mind right now has to do with the trials and tribulations of prediction. The NOAA does pretty well with some very sophisticated mathematical models, but is hard put to know even which direction the storm will go a few days ahead. Look a week ahead and chaos reigns. I was thinking of a similar theme during the eclipse when of course everyone was rightfully impressed with the ability to predict a eclipse within seconds. That ability is entirely conditioned by the short time frame. I am not sure how far out one has to go for the eclipse events to appear chaotic. I've seen estimates of 5 million years or so. In greater than 5 million years or so we have no idea when the eclipses will be, and the problem is not computation power, but rather the limit of precision of models of planetary bodies, especially Mercury. Tim On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Osuch <osuchj@mediacombb.net> wrote:
Folks,
I've updated the experimental SDL version on the Developers website. It now runs a disk video mode, but only once, then it crashes.
The disk video modes are now fixed and the file has been updated on the website.
Jonathan
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