Short: fractint v. 2.1 runs on all amigas with WB2.04 or higher. Type: gfx/fract Uploader: terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no Author: terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no and some other.. This is a port of the msdos/X fractint program. Ported from Xfractint 2.03 (fractint 18.2) by Terje Pedersen. I can be reached with email: terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no V2.1: the "save current parameters" didnt work properly, now it does! The interfaces are generated dynamically and one type wasn't generated. Expect to see some more options on several requesters! Color cycling 'from value' wasn't used. It caused some unwanted effect on those graphics boards! It is fixed now! The interface generation is improved somewhat. Now the input boxes is all of the same size! Now using reqtools screenmode requester. The Asl screenmode requster was only available from 2.1+. Now this program might actually work with 2.04! The HAM mode didnt work on non AGA. It tried to open a 8 bitplane HAM screen. It worked on my AGA machine so I missed that one! Now it opens a 6 bitplane screen on non AGA's. After having tested the HAM mode I'm not totally satisfied with it. In some cases the colors doesnt come up right after having saved it and then viewed it with a giftoham program. To get images equal to those on AGA it is best to use a disk video mode. And then use a giftoham viewer. When I find some giftoham converter source I may add it to the program, saving some extra saving and loading. The cycle colors button wasn't very useful. It is replaced by Load and Save palette. Amigaguide now pops up if you press the Help buttons or press help-key when the fractint screen is active. Some fractals runs 30-40% faster! The program seems to work ok on some graphics boards, especially those who emulates AGA. In order for HAM to work on non AGA machines I added a test to check if the machine is aga or not, if it isnt it will open only 6 bitplane screens or lower. If this causes problems with those graphics boards I added a flag 'force' that forces the program to open 8 bitplane screens even if the machine isnt AGA. It may or may not work.. The manual now has a lot of slightly incorrect information since the interface is changed to MUI. Some of the "press 'z' to.." isnt likely to work!, or may have a different key. The underscored keys in the MUI interface are worth trying! Also the autokey features may no longer work properly, also as a result of the MUI. Some of the links in the guide files were incorrect. Some has been fixed. Is there a program to automatically check all the links in a guide? Let me know if you know of any! I removed the FASTMEM flag so it may actually work on a computer with no fastmem. Expect it to be seriously slow though! Lower memory requirement? I tried it with 2meg chip and no fast mem running wb2.04 and it worked! Horribly slow but it worked! 1meg chip and 1 meg fast might be enough! When color cycling (shift,alt,ctrl)-F1-F10 was supposed to give some nice color ranges. Now it does! (at least on AGA..) Got any bug-reports,suggestions,money.. : please feel free to send them to me! If you are not totally and utterly satisfied with the program you may try to ask for a refund.. Hint: Try out the zoom-box with the page-up and page-down keys. then try ctrl + (keypad +) and ctrl - and the zoombox rotates! Great for animations with both zooming and rotating! also ctrl page-up/down will stretch the zoom box. ctrl home/end will shear the box! Press 'Help' when using the zoom-box and you will get a list of all the options. Happy rendering! TP ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 542068 244217 54.9% 14-Jun-94 19:17:18 fractint.000 1717 389 77.3% 13-Jun-94 03:59:32 fractint.cfg 1844 387 79.0% 13-Jun-94 03:41:28 fractint.cfg.AGAntsc 1361 337 75.2% 13-Jun-94 03:40:52 fractint.cfg.ntsc 1271 334 73.7% 12-May-94 00:43:50 fractint.cfg.pal 3506 1705 51.3% 14-Jun-94 11:03:34 readme.amiga -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 551767 247369 55.1% 14-Jun-94 12:18:50 6 files