"Baldin Lee Pramer" <baldinleepramer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jan 20, 1:43 pm, "Doc Martian" <docmart...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Baldin Lee Pramer" <baldinleepra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
i always prefered subtler color schemes. colors that made my neurons go
ooooh.
Cheers!
Doc
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