Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!guy
From: guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Backgrounding Fractint in Windows3.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.015721.813@contact.uucp>
Date: 14 Sep 90 01:57:21 GMT
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In <26ed5518.2eac@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> churritz@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Skito) writes:



>Has anyone been able to run the fractal generating program Fractint
>in the background of enhaced mode?  I've tried all the pif file combinations
>I could think of, but when ever I try to generate them in the background
>I get a message telling me I cant do it in the background.

>I have 386 33mhz, vga 640x480x16, and am using the fractint mode "f4".

>Can someone tell me the pif settings that can make this work?
>Is it even possible to run high graphics routines
>like this in the background of windows?

>thanks in advance.

>-skito


Sorry, Windows 3.0 will not run a graphics program in the background.  Period.