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- FracXtra v5.0: Fractint Extras Collection by Dan Goldwater, 7/5/93 release.
- distributed as FRACXTR5.ZIP
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-
- description:
-
- FracXtra is a huge collection of .map, .par, .frm, .ifs, .l, .key, and .bat
- files, as well as some small external programs for the best fractal generator
- ever made, Fractint, by the Stone Soup Group (no bias here!).
- version 17 or higher of fractint is needed for some
- of the files in this collection. The files are
- by no means all made by me, although i did make quite a few of
- the .map and .par files myself. The FracXtra collection
- is really just a collection of all the fractint .map, .par, .frm, etc.
- files i have found on the internet and on bulletin boards.
-
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- WHAT'S NEW:
-
- Lots of new .frm files, thanks to mike wareman.
-
- New distribution policies and sites! I can now send fracxtra and/or fractint
- and/or other software by real mail for a nominal fee. Also, fracxtra will now
- be distributed on many more internet sites than previously.
-
- I am now using pkzip v2.04g. you need pkunzip v2.04 or (unix) unzip v5.0.
-
- some of the new .par files are fractint v18 specific, everything else will
- work at least with v17.
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- where to get FracXtra, Fractint, and all that other Good Stuff:
-
- FracXtra can be obtained from finer bulletin boards, on many Internet
- FTP sites, and most likely from Compu$erve as well, though I
- personally do not put it on ci$.
- If you can't get either FracXtra and/or Fractint by the above means, I can
- send them by real-mail for a nominal fee. See details on this below.
-
- it may take up to a week after each release for
- fracxtra to get onto all the distribution sites... the following are the
- distribution sites which each new version of fracxtra is uploaded/ftp'd to
- by me:
-
- Bulletin Boards:
- The Graphics Alternative BBS, 510-524-2780 (highly recommended!)
- Channel 1 BBS, 617-354-7077 617-354-3137 617-354-5776 617-354-8873
-
- Internet FTP sites:
- All new releases of FracXtra are found on the following sites:
-
- Simtel20 mirror sites:
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu in /mirrors/msdos/graphics/
- oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/graphics
- wsmr-simtel20.army.mil in pd1<msdos.graphics>
- nic.funet.fi and others...
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/graphics/ or
- /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/misc/ or /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/ or similar.
-
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/uploads/ or /pub/pc/win3/desktop/
-
- sprite.berkeley.edu in /pub/ (this is the XFractint source.
- XFractint includes the full FracXtra with it. look for the
- file xfract18.tar.Z or similar. the FracXtra release may be here
- as a separate file as well).
-
- where to get Fractint:
-
- Fractint v18.0/v17.3 is available in versions for dos, windows, and X.
- you can get Fractint on any of the above BBS systems and internet
- FTP sites. on oak.oakland.edu, look in /pub/msdos/graphics/ as
- fraint18.zip. the source code (for dos and X) is frasrc18.zip.
- The windows version is in /pub/msdos/windows3/ as
- winfr173.zip. New versions of the software will presumably have similar
- names when they are released.
-
-
- Disks By Real-Mail (before May 1995 only, see address below):
-
- number of disks i send you: price:
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- 1 $8.00 US
- 2 $11.00 US
- 3 $14.00 US
- each additional disk $3.00 US
-
- International: Add 50% to all prices.
-
- Discounts: If you send me QUALITY files to add to FracXtra, you
- get a $3.00 discount (.frm, .par, .map, .ifs, .l, .bat,
- .key, or *SMALL* external programs ONLY).
-
- Note: I can handle 1.44meg and 1.2meg dos format disks ONLY!
-
- What will fit on a disk (all programs are zipped, pkunzip included) ?
-
- Package: Size:
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- FracXtra v5.0 525k
- Fractint v18.0 for dos 485k
- Fractint/XFract v18.0 portable C source code (msc6, msc7, bc31, X) 875k
- Fractint v17.3 for Microsoft Windows 490k
- DTA v1.8 fli animation creator 150k
- PlayFli v0.73 svga fli animation player 20k
- PicLab v1.91 truecolor image converter, manipulator, viewer 175k
- AAPlay v1.1 for Windows animation creator, player. incl. truecolor. 110k
- CompuShow v8.60a viewer and printer 155k
- Graphics Workshop v6.1v file viewer, converter, manipulator, FX. 350k
- Graphics Workshop v1.1c for Windows 500k
- RayShade v4.0.6 386+387 raytracer, w/source 1010k
- Persistance Of Vision 386+387 raytracer (POVray) 860k
- POVray utilities (including CAD-style front end) 200k
- HCMake, HCPlay, HCShow, HCSvga hicolor animation, viewers, bc31 code 270k
- vbrun100.dll and vbrun200.dll for some windows programs 365k
- Image Alchemy v1.6 image converter, manipulator, viewer, etc. 445k
- JPEG386 (Independant JPEG group). 386 gif and tga to jpeg 205k
- Pkzip v2.04g 205k
- *** Some other graphics shareware packages for dos/windows are available ***
- *** The latest versions of all programs will always be supplied ***
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- using the FracXtra collection:
-
- .par files are fractal parameter files. press '@', then 'f6' to load a
- parameter file.
- .map files are fractal color maps. load them with 'l' when in color cycling
- mode (press 'c' to go to color cycling mode when an image is displayed).
- .frm files are fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'formula', then
- press 'f6' to load a formula file
- .ifs files are IFS type fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'IFS', then
- press 'f6' to load an IFS formula file.
- .l files are L-system fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'L-system',
- then press 'f6' to load an L-system formula file.
- .bat files are for running fractint with command line options from dos.
- .key files are fractint macro keylists, for demos and such.
- other files are external programs, .txt files describing files in the
- collection, or other things.
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- getting your own Fractint extras in the FracXtra collection:
-
- If you have any good Fractint extras you would like
- to have included in this collection, just tell me how to get them and i
- will include them in the next release.
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- -----------------
- --Dan Goldwater--
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-
- preferred (internet) email: daniel_goldwater@brown.edu
- alternate (internet) emails: dgold@math.umass.edu
- dgold@lems.brown.edu
- st202013@brownvm.brown.edu
-
- Compu$erve users: I have been told that you too can send me email at my
- internet email address, though i can't tell you how to do it.
-
- since i'm a student, feel free to send money if that's your desire:
-
- Primary address which i check at least weekly (ok until at least May 1995)
- Send all orders for software to this address, make checks to Dan Goldwater:
-
- Dan Goldwater
- Box 5435
- Brown University
- Providence, RI 02912-5435
-
-
- Secondary address which i check about once a month:
-
- Dan Goldwater
- 9 Forest Edge Rd
- Amherst, MA 01002-1533
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- #IFDEF LEGAL_CRAP
- I make absolutely no
- claim to ownership of most of the files or programs
- contained here, and some of them may be shareware, although most
- are freeware or public domain. Many of the files
- are copyrighted in the specific files by whoever made them. Due to
- the methods and time period over which this
- collection was/is gathered, it
- would be impossible to list all the contributors whose names are not
- specifically in a file contained herein.
- basically i think what i want to say here is all
- the legal stuff that gets me off the hook when
- you sue me for something. just insert
- any and all disclaimers here. i am not trying to
- make any money from this, anyway. if any author of something
- in this collection doesn't like what i am doing, just email or real-mail
- me and i'll correct the situation.
- #ENDIF LEGAL_CRAP
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- using the collection:
-
- .par files are fractal parameter files. press '@', then 'f6' to load a
- parameter file.
- .map files are fractal color maps. load them with 'l' when in color cycling
- mode (press 'c' to go to color cycling mode when an image is displayed).
- .frm files are fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'formula', then
- press 'f6' to load a formula file
- .ifs files are IFS type fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'IFS', then
- press 'f6' to load an IFS formula file.
- .l files are L-system fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'L-system',
- then press 'f6' to load an L-system formula file.
- .bat files are for running fractint with command line options from dos.
- .key files are fractint macro keylists, for demos and such.
- other files are external programs, .txt files describing files in the
- collection, or other things.
-
- note that all the extras files contained in the release
- Fractint v17.2 are in fracxtra.
- while the various types of fractint files are separated into their own
- directories in this archive, you may want to put them all in your
- fractint main directory, because using them is easier that way.
- but, if you really don't want all 300 files in one directory, unzip this
- file with -d to recreate the directory structure. note that the
- .frm, .bat, and possibly some of the other files in the collection
- may not work as expected if they aren't in the same directory as fractint.exe.
- maybe newer versions of fractint will allow a forcefully defined directory
- for each type of file.
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- getting your own Fractint extras in the FracXtra collection:
-
- If you have any good Fractint extras you would like
- to have included in this collection, just tell me how to get them and i
- will include them in the next release.
-
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- upgrading old fracxtra releases:
-
- upgrading from version 2 or version 1:
-
- everything in the previous releases of fracxtra is in this release, but some
- files have been renamed, some conglomerated to reduce the number of files, and
- some deleted if they duplicated other files. as a result, you can delete
- every file in the old version and then unzip this collection. the
- problem is that if you have made any fractint files of your own, you will
- have to avoid deleting them (heh heh).
- to help you do this, the following files existed in version 2 but have been
- deleted in this version:
- all .l files except fractint.l, penrose.l, tiling.l
- moreifs1.ifs
- black.map, white.map (what were these all white and all black maps for?!?)
-
- upgrading from version 3, 2, and 1:
-
- the /txt directory was eliminated. the .txt files are now in /other.
- erase the following files, which were either duplicates or were renamed:
- rain4x3.map, smooth2.map, smooth4.map.
-
- upgrading from version 4:
-
- no problem.
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- notes on specific files:
-
- many of the .txt files in /other correspond to a .par and/or .frm file, and
- describe how to use it or who wrote it or something like that.
-
- fractint.frm and improved.frm have many of the same formulas in them, but
- they have been organized so that fractint.frm is a subset of improved.frm.
- the formulas in fractint.frm have many of the variables preset, such that
- they require less parameters than the corresponding (and similarly named)
- formulas in improved.frm. many of the improved.frm formulas in turn have
- a comment which gives example values to try in a formula, and these are
- often the values used to preset that formula in fractint.frm. note that
- the fractint.frm included in the collection is different from the one
- included in Fractint v17. you may want to rename improved.frm to
- fractint.frm, and fractint.frm to oldfract.frm, because many of the .par
- files expect certain formulas to be in fractint.frm which are now only
- in improved.frm.
-
- some of the .par and .bat files are directory dependant, and may not be
- able to find the .frm, .map, or .par files they need to work properly.
- in general, most can be made to work if your fractint.exe is located in
- c:\fract\ and the .frm, .map, .par, and/or .bat files in question are
- also located in c:\fract\. you could also fix this problem by editing the
- files in question, or by adding your .map, .par, and .frm files on the path.
-
- the following files were made by me: about half of the .map files, including
- almost all the various rainbow and volcano and fade ones. i made the
- dgeneral.par and the dcontpot.par files, both are (c), but you
- can use them for any non-profit purpose you wish, as long as
- you don't claim you made them. i also wrote part of the
- 24bit.txt info file on making 24bit fractals, and
- the frachead.ray rayshade header file. also many of the .txt and .bat files
- describing various stuff (in /other). also made fraccfg.2.
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- version history:
-
- version 1:
- - the initial release. totally undocumented and disorganized and incomplete.
- everyone kept bugging me and bugging me to re-upload it everywhere <g>.
-
- version 2:
- - got a whole bunch of new .par, .frm, .l, and .bat files, and a few .map's
- - made this readme file, and the file_id.diz.
- - discovered that none of the .ifs files were in the correct format. i fixed
- them, and consolidated all the new ones into one file, moreifs.ifs.
- - consolidated a few of the .par files that had only a few .par's
- in them into the misc.par file.
- - eliminated duplication in a few of the .par files (like wohlers.par
- and all of the .par files i made myself), and i consolidated my own .par's.
-
- version 3:
- - got a few new .map and .par files
- - nuked a ton of .l and .ifs files because they were dups
- - changed the zip-exe dir to an other dir, and put in some new stuff.
- - removed duplication from the remaining .l files.
- - removed duplication between fractint.frm and improved.frm, and
- reorganized those files (see notes).
- - fixed one of the formulas in improved.frm which had a syntax error (jm_23).
- - made a .txt file about making 24bit fractals
- - used pkzip v2.04e to compress
- - made a .ray file header for rayshade output files
- - misc. editing of files
-
- version 4:
- - made fade*.map
- - deleted rain4x3.map, renamed smooth2.map and smooth4.map
- - got select.frm file, and burt.par file
- - got a .map file making program, map100.zip.
- - moved the /txt stuff into /other
- - used the old pkzip v1.10 to compress, for compatibility
- - misc. editing of files
- - made/added .txt and .bat files on animating fractals.
- - got about 20 new .map, a .par, and a .ifs file
- - got fbat102.zip, a par-to-bat converter
- - got a .cfg file and .ini additions and other misc. files in /other
-
- version 5:
- - got aaa111.par and cw4par.par
- - i got some other stuff, but i dont remember what anymore!
- - some new maps, but i dont remember their names.
- - lots of new .frm files from mike wareman. see \other\f(g(z))).txt for info.
- - also got secant.frm from mike wareman, and made mikeware.par from his .gifs.
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