Version 15.11, 3/91, companion to Fractal Creations, not for general
release
Autokey feature, IIT fpu support, and some bug fixes publicly released
in version 16.
Version 15 and 15.1, 12/90
New user interface! Enjoy! Some key assignments have changed and some
have been removed.
New palette editing from Ethan Nagel.
Reduced memory requirements - Fractint now uses overlays and will run
on a 512K machine.
New <v>iew command: use to get small window for fast preview, or to
setup an image which will eventually be rendered on hard copy with
different aspect ratio
L-System fractal type from Adrian Mariano
Postscript printer support from Scott Taylor
Better Tandy video support and faster CGA video from Joseph A Albrecht
16 bit continuous potential files have changed considerably; see the
Continuous Potential section for details. Continuous potential is
now resumable.
Mandelbrot calculation is faster again (thanks to Mike Gelvin) -
double speed in 8086 32 bit case
Compressed log palette and sqrt palette from Chuck Ebbert
Calculation automatically resumes whenever current image is resumable
and is not paused for a visible reason.
Auto increment of savename changed to be more predictable
New video modes:
trident 1024x768x256 mode
320x480x256 tweak mode (good for reduced 640x480 viewing)
changed NEC GB-1, hopefully it works now
Integer mandelbrot and julia now work with periodicitycheck
Initial zoombox color auto-picked for better contrast (usually)
New adapter=cga|ega|mcga|vga for systems having trouble with auto-
detect
New textsafe=no|yes for systems having trouble with garbled text mode
<r> and <3> commands now present list of video modes to pick from; <r>
can reduce a non-standard or unviewable image size.
Diffusion fractal type is now resumable after interrupt/save
Exitmode=n parameter, sets video mode to n when exiting from fractint
When savetime is used with 1 and 2 pass and solid guessing, saves are
deferred till the beginning of a new row, so that no calculation
time is lost.
3d photographer's mode now allows the first image to be saved to disk
textcolors=mono|12/34/56/... -- allows setting user interface colors
Code (again!) compilable under TC++ (we think!)
.TIW files (from v9.3) are no longer supported as input to 3D
transformations
bug fixes:
multiple restores (msc 6.0, fixed in 14.0r)
repeating 3d loads problem; slow 3d loads of images with float=yes
map= is now a real substitute for default colors
starfield and julibrot no longer cause permanent color map
replacement
starfield parameters bug fix - if you couldn't get the starfield
parameters to do anything interesting before, try again with this
release
Newton and newtbasin orbit display fixed Fixed startup and text
screen problems on systems with VESA compliant
video adapters. New textsafe=save|bios options.
Fixes for EGA with monochrome monitor, and for Hercules Graphics Card.
Both should now be auto-detected and operate correctly in text
modes. Options adapter=egamono and adapter=hgc added.
Fixed color L-Systems to not use color 0 (black).
PostScript printing fix.