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From: tarquin@athena.mit.edu (Robert P Poole)
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Subject: Re: Backgrounding Fractint in Windows3.0
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Date: 15 Sep 90 18:37:59 GMT
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>Sorry, Windows 3.0 will not run a graphics program in the background.  Period.

Actually, if you read the documentation for the latest version of Fractint
(I believe it's 14.0, and can be gotten on Simtel 20 and other places), you can
do background fractal plotting using machine ram rather than video ram.  Read
the stuff on ram video and disk video.  Disk video is slower -- fractint
pretends that a particular file on your hard disk is a video display, and so
you can definitely use that option with windows.  You just won't be able to
directly display the results.   Since Fractint 14.0 supports the new gif89a GIF
format set down by compuserve (a backwards compatible format with the old
gif87a format), you can use one of the popular GIF viewing programs available
for Windows.  The particluar GIF viewer I have in mind runs under 3.0 with
no difficulties.

Anybody know if there's a GIF viewer for Windows that supports the gif89a
standard?

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Robert P. Poole                       tarquin@athena.mit.edu
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