jackoftradez wrote:
I wish I could get the old versions just to check out - starting with version 1.0 in 1987! Anyone know where / if these are available?
I have all these and have known for years that I needed to make them available and have promised it several times. I have a whole lot of things on my plate right now (as always - it's good news, I have a very full and fulfilling life :-), but I shall do my best to figure out a way to get my fractint collection out. I may have to write some batch files to unpack and recompile source. But if I just released a set of official versions, that would narrow it down to an official release whn it broke that would give us a start, and not be too time consuming for me. Is there anyone who could host a CD ISO image? We can't do that at fractint.org because of the download bandwidth. Having an ISO image online seems to attract many casual downloaders who have huge bandwidth available to them. I discovered this before when I posted an ISO of the Fractal Creations 2nd Edition CD. The nature of the deep zoom hang that's being discussed is that it will be very hard to diagnose without some kind of binary search through the various versions. But with those versions, since I have not just release versions but developer patch versions, we have a shot - if we can locate the exact version where the problem occurs, the number of lines of code to inspect to find the bug is relatively small. Tim