On Jan 20, 1:43 pm, "Doc Martian" <docmart...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Baldin Lee Pramer" <baldinleepra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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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?
No, I expect they may well have tried it when a 386 at 66 MHz was a
blazing box! That was the cool thing about color cycling with
fractint: you might wait two days to draw a zoom, but then you press
"c" and it feels like you are falling into clown pants!
BLP
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