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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "Mandelbrot 3" software
Message-ID: <9807@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 16:58:02 GMT
References: <4751@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <4849@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <15152@reed.UUCP>
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In article <15152@reed.UUCP> minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) writes:
}In article <4849@darkstar.ucsc.edu> hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (William R.
}Ward) writes:
}>FRACTINT is not the competition for Mandelbrot 3... M3 is a commercial,
}>for-profit, you-can't-copy-this program.
}
}  I think its the other way around, honestly.  Fractint does more than
}M3 will, and it does it for free.  Why would someone buy a
}less-featured commercial program?

Don't forget that you can get full source for FRACTINT, so you get to see how
to do various fun things like stereo views, driving a *standard* IBM VGA at
up to 360x480x256 and 800x600x16, autodetecting all the popular VGA chipsets,
parsing fractal equations, etc.  Does M3 include source?  Does it support the
8514/A or Targa video boards? etc....

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