home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ubc-cs!news.UVic.CA!ugly!gwebster
- From: gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent)
- Subject: Re: New 32 Bit Fractint for OS/2 2.0 on Hobbes!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.060335.23153@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ugl-gw.uvic.ca
- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <5545@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 06:03:35 GMT
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <5545@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> johns@cs.umr.edu (John Stone) writes:
- >
- > Hi there,
- >I just downloaded the latest fractint for OS/2 from compuserve last night.
- >I put the file at hobbes.nmsu.edu in the /pub/downloads.
- >The moderator of the site seems to be gone or something, so it won't
- >be in /pub/os2/new for while....
- >
- >It is called pmfra2.zip and it is about 440k bytes in size.
- >
- >I tested it vs. the old pmfract, and it runs about 1.5 times faster
- >than the old 16 bit version.
- >This is a 32 bit app, and only runs under OS/2 2.0
- >
-
- I download this OS/2 version and it looks great. One question: how do you get
- colour palette to cycle? In the DOS version I have, I hit 'c'. I searched the
- docs for this and came up with a brief mention of the '+' and '-' keys, but
- neither of those seem to do anything.
-
- Has anybody tried this?
- --
- ________________________________________________________________________
- | Gord Webster | Be cool or be cast out - Rush |
- | University of Victoria | OS/2, it's curtains for Windows |
- | Victoria, B.C., Canada | Oxygen is for losers - Red Dwarf |
-