hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (07/12/90)
Due to overwhelming demand I have placed my incomplete port of Fractint on terminator. I'm going to be pretty busy for the next few weeks, but expect to return & finish it around the end of the month. The parts that work work really well, the parts that don't will lock up your ST. This is a port of Fractint version 12.0 from MSDOS. The PC authors are already completing version 14.0. Hopefully I'll be able to merge the stuff when they're done. This port was done using gcc 1.37 and 16 bit integers. As with the PC code, some of the more intense stuff has been written in assembler. I've clocked it at about 10% slower than an IBM PS-2 Model 70 386 box in the integer-only routines, so it's reasonably snappy. (Of course, I've also got a Turbo-16 accelerator...) It's not as fast as APFELMAN, oh well. (APFELMAN is this really fast mandelbrot generator from a German ST magazine. I unfortunately lost my only copy of it before I could disassemble it... If someone out there would be so kind as to email me another copy, I'd be grateful.) Of course, it's got more color than APFELMAN too, so I guess it's a fair tradeoff. }-) 16 ugly colors in medium rez, 256 unique colors in low rez. 4 level grayscale in monochrome. It's cool, it'll be really awesome when it's finished, but you can sneak a peak at it right now by grabbing ~ftp/atari/graphics/fractint.arc from terminator. -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip if one of those data bits happens to flip, one million data bits stored on the chip...