Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!pshuang From: pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Fractint 16 Message-ID: <9106172326.AA03351@beeblebrox.MIT.EDU> Date: 17 Jun 91 23:26:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 23 In article fechuny@aix01.aix.rpi.edu writes: > Can anyone tell me if there is a version of Fractint for > X windows? I would seriously doubt it (i.e. I've never heard of one) but there is hope. Fractint was originally a project which involved using very hardware-specific front-end code to write to displays, but in the last year or so with the addition of modes which write directly to disk files and a Windows version, it's obvious that the graphics engine at the center of Fractint is amenable to movement into other graphical environments. However, I suspect a good bit of it has been optimized to assembler (32-bit integer arithmetic) which is specific to Intel architecture but might translate to other chips, too. If you have a copy of Fractint handy, why don't you think about sending mail to the authors (most of them are available on Compuserve, which you can fairly easily reach through the Internet-Compuserve gateway as nnnnn.nnnn@compuserve.com) instead of asking us here secondhandedly and ask them if a UNIX port is on the way? or if one could be started... Singing off, UNIX:/etc/ping instantiated (Ping Huang)