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24 bit boards are few and far between. i may add 24-bit support, but consider the math: there is no need to calculate to 24-bits worth of iterations (it would take years) and (from experimental experience) extremely few Mandelbrot pics take more than calculating to an iteration level in excess of 1000. There are commercial programs (I recommend Art Department) for those very very few users with 24-bit boards which will convert standard HAM to 24-bit. I use a special way of exploiting HAM so you get no color streaking and get up to 256 colors. The program does have iteration levels up to 4096, but i've found only a pictures at trillions of magnification require them and those pics already take 4 – 12 hours on an accelerated amiga. Actually running iteration counts to 24 bits worth is blatant mathematical overkill and no one would tolerate the delay. A couple of users out of many many total users have asked about 24-bit color – perhaps in the next version when 24-bit boards are more common. Plotting in HAM is actually NOT trivial – else you'd see all the PD fractal programs do it. FractalPro is completely unique among Amiga fractal programs in doing HAM and the pics are worth it. This version concentrates on some spectacular animation modes not found on any other fractal program in the pc arena, nor even on the Cray programs used for the commercial Art Matrix video tapes. I hope everyone will like it. Are you a current FractalPro user? I've wanted Mandelbrot animations since I saw the first Art Matrix video, Nothing but Zooms – so I did it for the Amiga. Then their new video also showed Julia Cascades – now FractalPro has it and the panning and tweening modes are completely unique to FractalPro. thanks for the input – if there's plenty of demand for 24-bit, then that's next. Have to start studying that 24-bit IFF standard, I guess, if that's what people want.