From kragen@dnaco.net Tue Sep 8 09:21:07 1998 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:21:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: Fractint list Subject: Re: (fractint) Fractint on Linux? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 1717 Status: O X-Status: On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 4wg7kolodzie@vmsb.csd.mu.edu wrote: > On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Xylen wrote: > > I was wondering if anybody knows whether fractint > > will run under Linux. > > There's a version that runs under X-Windows (the graphical interface for > every Unix) called XFractint which is a bit hard to use (2 windows, one > for image, one for text input.) Plus you have to run your X-Windows in > 8-bpp mode to avoid the whole image being blue AND you have to use > command-line options to change the image size and get all 256 colors. IIRC -- although it has been several years -- you can resize the graphics window to change the image size. > I'm > personally still waiting for the SVGALib version (graphics without having > to start X-Windows) that acts exactly like the DOS version. I'd like that too. Even an X version that acts a little more like the DOS version (you know, displaying text and graphics in the same window, accepting keystrokes in that window, etc.) would be a big improvement. > > According to the documentation I've read, Linux will > > run many DOS programs, so I may be all right. > > IF you pick up DOSEmu. I think Fractint will run under that because > Fractint doesn't use any DOS extenders. I've never tried it, though. > Maybe that's the reason there's no SVGALib version... I *have* tried it. Fractint 19.5 under DOSEMU 0.66.7 works mostly fine, but can't color-cycle, and occasionally seems to freeze temporarily, and sometimes the graphics screen is displayed incorrectly. And it's hard to use with the mouse, because the mouse tends to escape the Fractint window while you're moving. More and more people are going to want to run Fractint in Linux -- there would be more Linux users as MS-Windows users in 2002 if Linux's current rate of growth were to remain constant -- so we need to find better ways of doing things. Linux and Fractint have a special kinship; they both share the same "stone soup" method of development. Kragen -- Kragen Sitaker I don't do .INI, .BAT, .DLL or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby. -- Fritz Anderson