Am 11.12.2014 um 21:08 schrieb Timothy Wegner:

The DOS Fractint runs beautifully under DOSBox on ANY platform. I have even run it on my Android phone. So if your platform runs DOSBox you are good to go. I have tried various other virtual platforms, and it runs on most of them that support DOS, Xp, or maybe even Windows up to Win 98, but the DOSBox setup works so well I'm not sure why run VM's unless one is curious or expert.

Confirmed! After a day of testing this is the easiest way to start: In the Dosbox config file add the following line under autoexecute: mount c c:\dosfiles\FRACTI~1\ this means the fractint directrory is now c:\ and you have to type only FRACTI~1.exe to start. ; The sstools is placed inside the fractint folder, so the path settings look like this: workdir=c:\work cycles=max to get the highest possible speed ; If you have a wireless keyboard without numpad all zoombox commands are available with the built in trackball, but only if fullscreen=false. ; If you set fullscreen=true you have the look and feel of the original dos or XP dos window. The speed is slower compared to my XP computer. Use one of my pars to compare. ; The fractint.cfg file is now accepted and the vesa modes up to 1280/1024 are available. ; Petta

On 12/11/2014 10:08 AM, Timothy Wegner wrote:

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Anyone tried it with DOS FractInt with DOSBox under Linux? Or with the Linux version, Xfractint?

The DOS Fractint runs beautifully under DOSBox on ANY platform. I have even run it on my Android phone. So if your platform runs DOSBox you are good to go. I have tried various other virtual platforms, and it runs on most of them that support DOS, Xp, or maybe even Windows up to Win 98, but the DOSBox setup works so well I'm not sure why run VM's unless one is curious or expert.

A variation called DOSBoxSvn has a few more VESA video modes compared to vanilla DOSBox. Google is your friend, but for convenience the site is http://ykhwong.x-y.net/

Thanks, will check that out even if they don't offer a 64-bit Linux build.

Xfractint, of course, runs directly under Linux and not DOSBox. Xfractint used to come with one or two Linux distributions, but I doubt it does any more.

Still comes with Debian.

Our Xfractint package has to be compiled by the user, we have not put together a standard Linux package (e.g. *.rpm).

Well, someone is putting together standard .DEB packages at Debian. Their current version is 20.4.10-2. Perhaps you should be in contact with the maintainer, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>? DEB packages are probably closer to a standard for desktop Linux than Redhat's .RPM packages. (Redhat is Linux for servers.)

Not too hard, but it's a complication. If anyone has experience putting together packages for Linux, perhaps we could build a package. I know nothing about it, but in my copious free time (hah, hah, hah!!) as an aged retired person , I'd be open to learning.

This topic comes up a lot. We have discussed it from time to time on the mailing lists, but that is not the best way to make the information available. I'd be willing to start a simple wiki at the fractint.net <http://fractint.net> and fractrint.org <http://fractrint.org> domains that I host. In the afore-mentioned free time, of course. The DOS fractint has had a longer life than any of us could have imagined. Might still be worth collecting information such as we are discussing now. My main concern about a wiki would be preventing spam. You could all participate. Maybe we could even have some par files and images, though I am not proposing replacing various places fractal artists are keeping their their products or trying to replace other fractal resources on the web. Let me know what you think about a wiki.

I think it's a great idea. A pool of knowledge will help in the very-far-distant future when the last of the DOS Fractint team has gone off iterating in the sky ... -- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com