Re: woohoo! got fractint running on my vista pc with dosbox.

On Jan 20, 7:11 am, "Doc Martian" <docmart...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> fullscreen color cycling via the alt-enter (dosbox) fullscreen mode. now
to
> get the cycles (dosbox) right so that the colorcycling is as smoov as it
> used to be on my oldschool box.
>
> http://www.dosbox.com/http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/FRACTint/fractint.html
>
> it really wasn't too hard to manage once i knew the programs. the key
was to
> put the fractint folder (with dosbox as a subfolder for easy
accessibility)
> into the root directory run dosbox then type 'mount c c:\fractint' then
> typed 'c:' to switch to c: hit alt-enter (to toggle dosbox fullscreen)
then
> typed fractint to start the lovely stonesoup beast that sucked more of
my
> time than you can possibly imagine back in the 20th century. 1024x768
> vga/vesa autodetect worked pretty good as a video mode. w00t! more than
that
> actually w000h000h000h00000! i'm pretty darn happy about this. wee!
>
> Cheers!
> Doc

Cool. I use DOSbox to run old DOS apps too. In fact, I will be using
fractint this semester, so I will give that a try.

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