. Someone asked: ""Since you mentioned booting DOS, did you ever run Fractint from DOS?"". I do not understand the question! If I boot from a DOS 7.0 CD, am I not then running fractint in DOS ?? I created the CD by first making a boot floppy in Win9X, then a CD burning program (Easy CD Creator ver 5.0, rather old software) has the ability to create boot CD using the floppy as source; I also add misc DOS files to it as I needed. The original HD was of course formatted NTFS, and couldn't be seen after DOS boot. But "Partition Magic 8.0" software allows conversion of partitions back to FAT32, something I had thought not possible. On the FAT32 partition is fractint and all needed files; it all works perfectly. I have been using flat (LCD) monitors forever - both on my old Win9X boxes and the current systems. The only problem is that they have a "default" resolution mode that may not be what you want for fractals; it still works however. .
JackOfTradez, thanks for the explanation. You spoke positively of Windows 9x, so I mistakenly thought you meant you ran Fractint under 9x. Could you share the essentials of how you configure DOS 7.0? Tim On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:29 PM, <JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net> wrote:
. Someone asked: ""Since you mentioned booting DOS, did you ever run Fractint from DOS?"". I do not understand the question! If I boot from a DOS 7.0 CD, am I not then running fractint in DOS ?? I created the CD by first making a boot floppy in Win9X, then a CD burning program (Easy CD Creator ver 5.0, rather old software) has the ability to create boot CD using the floppy as source; I also add misc DOS files to it as I needed. The original HD was of course formatted NTFS, and couldn't be seen after DOS boot. But "Partition Magic 8.0" software allows conversion of partitions back to FAT32, something I had thought not possible. On the FAT32 partition is fractint and all needed files; it all works perfectly. I have been using flat (LCD) monitors forever - both on my old Win9X boxes and the current systems. The only problem is that they have a "default" resolution mode that may not be what you want for fractals; it still works however. .
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