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- Documentation for "RETINAFRACT"
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- @$Ver: RFract_V0.76
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- 1. Short:
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- RETINAFRACT is a fractal-program for the Retina Z2/Z3- card.
- It can render 8Bit-colered pictures in wonderfull Resolutions.
- It was written completeley in Assembler and it uses the FPU-
- Extended-Real format so it is quick and can calculate in a range
- from 10^-8192 to 10^+8192 !
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- 2. System-requirement:
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- Kickstart: >= 2.0
- CPU/FPU: >= 68020 + 68881/882 oder 68040
- Grafic-Adapter: Retina, any RAM
- RAM: 10k program + buffer
- Size of buffer: 2*horizontal pix * vert pix
- z.B. 1024x768: 1,6 MB
- The buffer is only used when saving a picture.
- Libraries: Retina.library
- Asl.library
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- 3. Law
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- This program is Shareware, that means, that, if You like it,
- You should send about 10$ to the following address (I spendet
- a lot of time to make this program)
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- Christoph Mayer
- St.-Sebastian-Str. 3
- 86470 Thannhausen
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- All rights are reserved to the author of this program.
- You can copy it freely as long as you don't change the files
- and copy this documentation with it.
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- If You find bugs or want something changed, you can write to me
- or send a message to EMail chris@Teflon.rz.uni-augsburg.de.
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- 4.How Do I Use?:
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- !!!!!!! This is a CLI-program. Don't start it with an icon because a
- Software-Failure would occure !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- So simply start a shell and type:
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- RfractV0.761
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- .
- RFract immediatly starts to render a Mandelbrot-Pic with 320x200
- Pixels and 64 Iterations. You can stop it with CTRL-C.
- Außerdem ist die vordefinierte Palette nicht immer die
- schönste. Deshalb gibt es einige Extra-Funktionen.
- Es stehen folgende Auflösungen zur Verfügung:
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- Key | Screen | Iterations | comment
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- 1 160x127 32 only for fast selecting an area
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- 2 320x200 64 also
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- 3 640x512 128 nice
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- 4 800x600 256 good, but not as fast as low res.
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- 5 1024x768 256 phantastic
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- 6 1280x1024 512 also
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- 7 1600x1200 256 insane
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- 8 1900x1426 512 ultimate,but time!
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- Fraktal-types:
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- m Mandelbrot Apfelmännchen (You know it, fast)
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- j Julia of Mandelbrot. (An cross occures. With that You can
- point on the coordinates that will be used as the
- Julia-Constant.
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- x exp Exponent(z/1.8) * Lamda (interresting)
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- c cosexp Cosinus-Exponent-Fraktal (pretty)
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- i sinexp Sinus-Exponent-Fraktal (nice, but slow)
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- Weitere Tastenbelegungen:
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- a define area-> render a part of the fractal.
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- p Palette load-> A requester occures in order to get the name
- of the palette to be loaded (256 colors)
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- s Save-> A requester occures and You can type in the save-name.
- !!!! Type in or select a path name or nothing will be saved !!!!!
- There have to be opened 2 Buffers because a conversion
- has to be made and reading single pixels from the retina
- is real slow. It's obvious that You need a lot of RAM
- because of this.
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- CTRL C Stop rendering
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- ESC stop area-definition
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- q Quit-> quit program. You have to stop rendering first (CTRL C)
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- 5. Known bugs:
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- The programm does not work with a CON:-patch, that patches the Keyboard-
- behaviour (for example KingCon).
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- 6. Future releases:
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- Probably, i will create a gui-controlling for the program and add some functions.
- Well, but i don't know when i have the time to do this.
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- 7. Contents:
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- RetinaFract.lha:
- RFractV0.761
- RFractV0.761.doc
- RFractV0.761.dok
- Paletten (DIR)
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- That's all, folks!
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