#PD X Windows port?
04-Feb-94 23:14:18
Sb: #39297-#PD X Windows port?
Fm: Jim Shaffer Jr. 72750,2335
To: Dale Larson 76702,654
I was going to take a shot at porting FractInt, and I figured that it would be
easiest to get X for the Amiga and port from the X version, as opposed to
trying to translate X calls into Intuition calls (since I don't know a whole
lot about X) or porting from the presumably hardware-bashing IBM version.
FractInt, if you don't know, is a huge fractal generator written by a bunch of
Compuserve users. It's pretty much the program to end all programs, but nobody
has ever produced an Amiga version and nobody has ever seemed interested in
tackling it. I figured I'd try if there was an easy way out. Since it's
freeware, I don't think GfxBase is the way to go.