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

"Baldin Lee Pramer" <baldinleepramer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>
> BLP

think i should bother to explain color cycling to the alt.slack crowd? it 
probably in the end would prove entertaining to them but a lot of them
have 
wayyyyy too much monkey dna to bother. ook ook ook "Bob" ****ny things, 
smoke.

Cheers!
Doc