Re: [Freedos-user] Running Fractint under Freedos

2009-01-10 Thread Blair Campbell
Last but not least, making a partition for DOS can be hard because Vista will probably take all your space. Luckily, Linux installers can shrink Windows partitions Actually, I find it kinda cool that vista includes a partition-shrinker that you can run right in the OS. Just right click on

[Freedos-user] Running Fractint under Freedos

2007-04-26 Thread samatman samatman
I just got a new Toshiba laptop running Vista Home Basic. The DOS-based fractal program Fractint won't run in a DOS window because Vista won't let you run a fullscreen DOS window. I've installed the Dosbox emulator and Fractint runs fine under it, but it's a bit slow. I assume the emulation

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Fractint under Freedos

2007-04-26 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Thursday 26 April 2007 21:41, samatman samatman wrote: Questions: 1. Is Fractint likely to run faster under Freedos? Of course. Running DOS program under Vi$ta is a really bad idea... By the way, launching fractint from a native FreeDOS boot, you will probably get much more display

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Fractint under Freedos

2007-04-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi guys, right, fractint for dos will also run in freedos, because freedos is a dos ;-). and it will run faster than in dosbox, because dosbox simulates a cpu while freedos can run on your real cpu. you can boot it from cdrom, diskette, harddisk, or usb stick. the latter is easier with a modern