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First post, by Napivo

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First let me congratulate you guys for writing this excellent program, before I start telling you what I can't do :=)

Well this is my problem. I wondered if dosbox could run fractint. Much to my surprise it does and even can get color cycling working at high resolutions but whenever I switch out between the text and graphics mode somewhere on the 51 line the image gets corrupted.

Can this be solved / worked around.

these are the versions I am using

DosBox v0.74
Dfend 1.3.5

and the latest version of Fractint 13 February 2012 - Fractint 20.04p12

Anyone have any idea what goes wrong?

Reply 1 of 3, by ripsaw8080

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The glitched line in VESA modes is fixed in SVN, so you could try using an SVN build.

The low-res VGA and register-tweaked VGA modes show more significant corruption of the graphics when returning to graphics mode from text mode. I have a workaround program for the issue, but there's no need to bother with it if those modes are of no interest.

Reply 2 of 3, by P4R4D0X

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Yes this is a known bug... I made a post a while back but there are workarounds. Just change your machine type to svga_et3000 or svga_et4000 and it will work properly. It has been tested by me. As far as I know this bug might be hard to fix...

You will find the post here: FRACTINT graphics corruption

Reply 3 of 3, by Napivo

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Oh my.... This actually works and solved my problem

I Downloaded the version from (first one I tried) http://ykhwong.x-y.net/

It is capable of running Fractint without a glitch.... Thank you so very much.

(jumping up and down)
I an going to be happy for days 😀

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