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#PD X Windows port?

    04-Feb-94 23:14:18
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.