Does anybody else write these parameters directly? I was using Version 19.6 to write my parameter files, and I still do for multi-image batch renderings. 19.6 does the other rendering methods in disk-video, but it doesn't go up to 2400*1575 or yield maximal colours with outside=atan like more recent releases. So...I set the view parameters in 19.6 along with the batch parameters, then I move the parameter file and batch files to my new release's directory and change the reset value -- for outside=atan. For this kind of stuff, I usually use SF5 ,VESA Standard interface ,4f02, 100, 0, 0, 28, 640, 400,256,OK: Andy Fu - Chips&Tech mode, because it's close to 600*315 which equals 2400*1575 as a 4 by 5 batch file and the autodetect modes don't work for me any more. Maybe someone should check into external helpfile formats or aggregation with Lynx (the obvious format being HTML), because I got this from a 590+K documentation file that's probably a major reason why I can't shell out of FRACTINT to edit formulas and parameters anymore -- not without a mode change and Norton Editor 4.2, anyway: (...) Patch 10 Took out a sanity check in the VESA detection routines that certain graphics cards don't pass, but work fine anyway. This is probably the first version that would make a mess at the top of the screen on my Mach 64 with the autodetect modes, which I don't use in V.2003. Perhaps the result of the test should be displayed before you ask someone to ignore it. In my case, I uncommented the modes I wanted in FRACTINT.CFG and put them in place of the messy autodetect modes. I hope that's the only reason why FRACTINT doesn't like the defaults (F4) I get from the view-window form. (...) Added inside=fmod and inside=atan. The inside=atan option should only be used with periodicity=0. Now you tell me. I'm not sure why, though. Negative periodicities are better than inside=period when you get to set the threshold, too. As far as OUTside=atan, I wonder why it seems to require 255 iterations to get that many colours. (...) During an image save to disk, the 's' key is now ignored. While you're at it, you could ignore the mouse. And...it's hard to avoid noticing that the status screen is more informative than the disk-video screen -- which is where I learned that batch-mode doesn't want you doing anything but watching.