|15Fractals Plus v2.10

|07Fractals Plus v2.10 is a significantly improved version of Fractals
Plus v2.00, which was in itself such a great improvement on v1.00 as to
make it almost unrecognisable. New features in v2.10 are:

       ■ |14Support for 32-bit processors|07, resulting in huge speed 
     advantages if you have an 80386 or better. The processor type is 
     auto-detected.

       ■ |14New load and save routines|07 which are much easier to use and 
     more reliable than the old ones. They also include full mouse support.
     (The new save routine is only available in the registered version!)

And since version 1.00, the main improvements are:

       ■ |14Two new algorithms|07 for plotting which significantly lower the 
     time taken to plot an image. These are the recursive square-filling
     algorithm and the line adjacency fill algorithm, selectable from
     the Advanced Options menu.

       ■ |14Colour cycling|07 without which no self-respecting fractals 
     program would be complete. Here it is, to let you see all of our 
     wonderful and carefully chosen palette.

       ■ |14Image info|07 for getting information about the last plot

       ■ |14Typing in coordinates|07 so that you can get those images which 
     you see in the books but can never actually find yourself. This is also
     significantly improved in version 2.10.

       ■ |14Better graphics|07 (this doesn't actually improve the quality of
     the images but just the general atmosphere) including the delightful
     wavy Mandelbrot set on the loading screen (registered version only) and 
     the new logo.

       ■ |14Printer drivers|07 which are written in assembly language as
     opposed to BASIC and can be loaded individually. We now have 5
     drivers at the latest count for Epson dot-matrix (9-pin and 24-pin),
     HP DeskJet/LaserJet, and PostScript (mono and colour).

Fractals Plus v2.10 was written mostly in BASIC (though we're ashamed to 
admit it) because we just couldn't be bothered to rewrite everything all over 
again in another language. All the difficult bits were done in assembly 
language; this includes the code for actually plotting the images, colour 
cycling, other graphics, the .COM loader and of course the printer drivers.

Fractals Plus v2.10 was written by the same two authors as the original
version. We are:

|14Martin Bright|07, who at the time of writing has just left Bryanston
School and is taking a year to work for IBM before going on to study
maths at university, hopefully Clare, Cambridge. Martin wrote all the
assembly language bits and can just about still understand them, and was
quite rude about Bruce's BASIC bits which is completely inexcusable since
they actually work very well and are very impressive pieces of programming.

|14Bruce Davidson|07, a second year student at Durham University studying for
a degree in Applied Physics. Bruce wrote all the user interface which makes
up most of the BASIC code and did twice as much typing as was necessary due
to his choice of ridiculously long variable and function names and his
penchant for putting in lots of comments in pretty boxes.

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|14     ║                            COPYRIGHT                           ║
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|14     ║     Fractals Plus v2.10 is copyrighted. You may copy and       ║
|14     ║ distribute this unregistered version subject to the following  ║
|14     ║ conditions:                                                    ║
|14     ║  ■ The software is distributed in its entirety with all files  ║
|14     ║     intact and unaltered.                                      ║
|14     ║  ■ You do not charge more than £3.00 for distributing this     ║
|14     ║     software, except when distributed as a bundle (eg CD-ROM). ║
|14     ║  ■ You make it clear to all purchasers that they have *not*    ║
|14     ║     bought the software and must still register it with us if  ║
|14     ║     they continue to use it.                                   ║
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|14     ║            Fractals Plus v2.10 Unregistered version            ║
|14     ║       Copyright (C) Bruce Davidson and Martin Bright 1994.     ║
|14     ║                       All rights reserved.                     ║
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