Folks, Fractint (and Xfractint and Winfract) version 20.4 patch 8 is now available on the developer's web sites: www.fractint.org or www.fractint.net What's new: Fixed a bug in the virtual video code where the screen width was being reduced when going from a text screen back to the graphics screen. Revised logic that calculates the maximum X and Y resolutions possible with a given initial virtual screen size. Because of the variable type being used, the maximum size is 32767 even if sufficient video memory is available to support higher resolutions. Added back in code that forces passes=1 when either the X or Y resolution is greater than 2048. This was inadvertently removed with patch 5, and is needed because other passes= options are hard coded to use arrays of this size. Xfractint changes: Jean-Pierre Demailly provided extensive changes to eliminate the use of ncurses with Xfractint and also updated the MakeFile. Included a patch from Andrew Church and the people at Gentoo that fixes a filename buffer overflow that affected the help compiler. Also included their xioerror patch. Fixed a seg fault in Xfractint caused by not unstacking all the screens before exiting. Removed the shell-to-DOS option in Xfractint. Jonathan