MANDELTOUR 3.0
        © Copyright 1993-95 Charles Vassallo & France Festival Distribution   


 First, two important points:

     1 - MandelTour requires AGA system!  

     2 - For NTSC users :

     Due to its very principle, MandelTour comes with a graphic library of 
     Mandelbrot pictures. Here, these pictures are PAL sized and the program
     runs in PAL screens matched with them. Of course, these pictures can be 
     seen within a NTSC display, but at the price of some distortion, not to 
     mention that 20% of the picture is below the bottom of the screen. 
     So, better to pass into a true PAL screenmode:

      - either try your luck with the Nico François utilities in the 
        AmigaToNTSC drawer, from the Fred Fish disk #953 (included):
        click the AmigaToPAL icone before launching MandelTour or SlideShow; 
        normally, the program should then open a true PAL screen). 

      - or, better still, reboot your Amiga and ask for a PAL display 
        (press both mouse buttons while rebooting)

     In both cases, be sure to have the PAL monitor icone inside your 
     devs:Monitor drawer.


  What is MandelTour?

  Of course, MandelTour is meant to be nothing less than the finest 
  Mandelbrot explorer for Amiga systems... Never heard something like that?

  Well... MandelTour is not the fastest of all. No fantastically accurate
  arithmetics  -- although not that bad, up to 128-bit routines. Sure, 
  its point and click enlarging routine, though efficient, may look 
  primitive compared with those of some competitors. So far, no ARexx port, 
  no in-line help...
  
  Simply, it currently gives the best pictures.

  Did you see the Mandelbrot images by Uwe Krueger, in the Meeting
  Pearls #1 CD-Rom, computed with a workstation? MandelTour can 
  provide equivalent pictures. Double-clik the SlideShow icone and see 
  what MandelTour can do. To the best of our knowledge, no other Amiga
  software can make a similar job.    


  The drawer contains

      - a demo version of MandelTour
      - a graphic library consisting of a hundred or so 256-color Mandelbrot
        pictures, both low-res or hi-res, full size or reduced.
      - a SlideShow program for hi-res pictures (try it right away!)
      - a short illustrated file explaining the various rendering modes of 
        MandelTour. (do try it too)  
      - the general MandelTour notice 
         

  MandelTour is a commercial program. 

  You have only a demo here, with several degraded features, namely :
    (1) all the saving options have been suppressed
    (2) you cannot do more than one enlargement at a time from the
        various images of the library. In other terms, this demo is aimed
        at giving you a taste of the new rendering facilities offered by
        MandelTour, not at allowing you to freely explore the Mandelbrot 
        Set; however, the numerous library pictures, together with the
        custom navigation functions of MandelTour will offer you a fair
        guided tour across the depths of the Set. To compute a new enlar-
        gement, you will be obliged to reload a library picture.
    (3) the keyboard input of coordinates is inhibited
  The other features are functional.

  The complete version is distributed by

                 FRANCE FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTION
                 3 rue Anatole France
                 13220 Chateauneuf-les-Martigues - FRANCE
                 fax: (33) 42 76 18 70
   
  and the current price is 240 FF, including shipping. Paiement only by postal 
  order or checks in FF drawn on a French bank. Sorry, no credit card, and, 
  please, no cash (forbidden by international postal regulation). Precise 
  if you want a PAL or a  NTSC version, because the program comes on two 
  diskettes with basic pictures to begin with, so you must tell which 
  screen format you prefer for them.