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In article <d1!lrbk@rpi.edu> fechuny@aix01.aix.rpi.edu writes:

 > Can anyone tell me if there is a version of Fractint for
 > X windows?

I would seriously doubt it (i.e. I've never heard of one) but there is
hope.  Fractint was originally a project which involved using very
hardware-specific front-end code to write to displays, but in the last
year or so with the addition of modes which write directly to disk files
and a Windows version, it's obvious that the graphics engine at the
center of Fractint is amenable to movement into other graphical
environments.  However, I suspect a good bit of it has been optimized to
assembler (32-bit integer arithmetic) which is specific to Intel
architecture but might translate to other chips, too.

If you have a copy of Fractint handy, why don't you think about sending
mail to the authors (most of them are available on Compuserve, which you
can fairly easily reach through the Internet-Compuserve gateway as
nnnnn.nnnn@compuserve.com) instead of asking us here secondhandedly and
ask them if a UNIX port is on the way? or if one could be started...

Singing off,
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