Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/2/2015 9:37 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote: Ralf, I did: type FRACTINT at the command line... have tried that several times. Well, good old Albert Einstein is attributed to shave said It is insanity to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results Was I in the proper

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Knute Myhrvold knut...@att.net wrote: But that's as far as I have gotten... HOW do I get FreeDOS to RUN Fractint? How is it done? Thanks for any help! If you go to Fractint.org and follow the pointers, you'll find a virtual environments directory with this:

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/2/2015 5:00 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: It sounds like you are trying to do it right. You must include the path on your command. Is it possible that you are missing a file - like a license file in you directory. It may be free now but was probably once shareware that died after a period if

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Knute Myhrvold
Dennis, Thank you kindly. Actually, I have to admit that I have already installed that FreeDOS-Fractint.ova into my VBox. When I type the command dir into it it shows FRACTINT along with the other normal FreeDOS files. But I still can't get it to RUN Fractint. Supposedly if I just type

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS inVirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Knute Myhrvold
- Original Message - From: Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 3:46 PM Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS inVirtualBox? Hi, On

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Knute Myhrvold knut...@att.net wrote: I did: type FRACTINT at the command line... have tried that several times. Was I in the proper Folder? I thought so... after typing dir fractint FreeDOS did display the many files there, including FRACTINT.EXE. I

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Dale E Sterner
It sounds like you are trying to do it right. You must include the path on your command. Is it possible that you are missing a file - like a license file in you directory. It may be free now but was probably once shareware that died after a period if unpurchased. Most of the time they give away

[Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Knute Myhrvold
I want to run Fractint, an old DOS fractal image generater. I used to run it on Win95, 98, and NT, and it will run on some WinXPmachines, but not mine. So I have installed VirtualBox and finally successfully installed FreeDOS as a Guest in it... in the Settings I put FRACTINT.EXE and all its

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/2/2015 5:18 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote: I want to run Fractint, an old DOS fractal image generater. I used to run it on Win95, 98, and NT, and it will run on some WinXPmachines, but not mine. So I have installed VirtualBox and finally successfully installed FreeDOS as a Guest in it... in

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Knute Myhrvold
Ralf, I did: type FRACTINT at the command line... have tried that several times. Was I in the proper Folder? I thought so... after typing dir fractint FreeDOS did display the many files there, including FRACTINT.EXE. I then typed FRACTINT and again it didn't run. And I have been studying

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Knute Myhrvold
EUREKA! FRACTINT RUNS IN FREEDOS! I have finally found the way to run it, that is, I found it after Ralf Dale others told me... CHDIR is the key This only applies to the special FreeDOS+Fractint.ova which is downloadable from the Fractint.org site (Fractint 20 is built-into FreeDOS 1.0).