Fractint version 20.4 patch 7
Folks, Fractint (and Xfractint and Winfract) version 20.4 patch 7 is now available on the developer's web sites: www.fractint.org or www.fractint.net What's new: Added feature to write the base map name to the first line of the file when a map file is saved and the only change has been a rotation of the palette. The base map name is then read in and used as the current map name when the new map file is restored. The recordcolors=comment command line option has been modified to not create a comment line in PARs. Two colors= entries are now created with the first one in the format colors=@fname.map and the second in the format colors=000<24>0n0...010. When a PAR entry is read, the first colors= sets the map name, and the second colors= effectively rotates the colors. Updated the Xfractint Makefile to install using sudo instead of as root. Jonathan
Tried this one in Ubuntu "Gutsy". After running through your outlined procedure, I got a message saying "xfractint not installed" Use "sudo apt-get install xfractint". I did this and tried to run... and it worked. However, the scrolling screen was missing and I went straight into rendering the test Mandel. This is another "blue end" spectrum type. Something's still not right with my folders, and/or the placement of sstools, as I must use two shift-6's to get into the directory containing the pars. I'm trying to discover where sstools should be to stop this. Still, this is the closest I've been, so far, to a smoothly running xfractint. Thanks, Johnathan. John W. Sun Sun, 2007-11-18 at 16:38 -0600, Jonathan Osuch wrote:
Folks,
Fractint (and Xfractint and Winfract) version 20.4 patch 7 is now available on the developer's web sites: www.fractint.org or www.fractint.net
John,
After running through your outlined procedure, I got a message saying "xfractint not installed" Use "sudo apt-get install xfractint". I did this and tried to run... and it worked. However, the scrolling screen was missing and I went straight into rendering the test Mandel. This is another "blue end" spectrum type.
Something's still not right with my folders, and/or the placement of sstools, as I must use two shift-6's to get into the directory containing the pars. I'm trying to discover where sstools should be to stop this.
There doesn't seem to be a way to get that version of Xfractint (20.4-01) to find the sstools.ini file. One of the problems with the installation used by the Ubuntu distribution is that all the files get installed as the root user. This makes it difficult to change them. And, since Xfractint isn't being run as the root user, it won't be able to save files to the directories the installation created. I'll try again. I may have just not set the file permissions correctly. Jonathan
I just re-installed for the umpteenth time, and it all seems to work! I found that I had been installing from "Desktop" instead of "home". This time I corrected that, and started with the scrolling screen. I was now able to use "t" to select a fractal type, draw a fractal and zoom into it, all in polychrome. I still had to go through the "sudo apt-get install xfractint" routine in response to a "not installed" message. I didn't touch Makefile, but I *did* edit out all references to other than xfractint in the sstools.ini file, (if that makes any difference). Thanks again, John W. On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:27 -0600, Jonathan Osuch wrote:
John, <snip>
There doesn't seem to be a way to get that version of Xfractint (20.4-01) to find the sstools.ini file. One of the problems with the installation used by the Ubuntu distribution is that all the files get installed as the root user. This makes it difficult to change them. And, since Xfractint isn't being run as the root user, it won't be able to save files to the directories the installation created.
I'll try again. I may have just not set the file permissions correctly.
Jonathan
John,
I found that I had been installing from "Desktop" instead of "home". This time I corrected that, and started with the scrolling screen. I was now able to use "t" to select a fractal type, draw a fractal and zoom into it, all in polychrome.
If the sstools.ini file were being found, you wouldn't start at the scrolling credits screen. No, you don't need to edit out the other entries.
I still had to go through the "sudo apt-get install xfractint" routine in response to a "not installed" message. I didn't touch Makefile, but I *did* edit out all references to other than xfractint in the sstools.ini file, (if that makes any difference).
This means you are reinstalling version 20.4-01 each time. To compile the source for the developer's version, use the following from the read.me file provided with the source. Although, that does seem the wrong place to keep it. ******* Download the source tarball (for example: xfractint-20.04p07.tar.gz), put it in your home directory, and untar it with the command: tar -xzf xfractint-20.04p07.tar.gz This will create the directory xfractint-20.04p07 containing the source. You might want to change the directory name to xfractint for convenience. You will need to have gcc, ncurses, and ncurse-develop installed. You also need the XFree86-libs package installed for the X11 libraries. This package should already be installed, but if it isn't and your distribution doesn't have it, then you need the XFree86-devel package. The Makefile is set up for my convenience, so if you want to put files in different directories, you will need to change the SRCDIR setting. Otherwise, just run "make" from the source directory and it should compile. Run ./xfractint to start it up. Or, run "make install" to be able to run xfractint from anywhere. ******* Jonathan
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