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1992 PD Fractal Display from the WACCI library

Started by ComSoft6128, 04:46, 12 August 19

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ComSoft6128

To skip DES, ProText and ParaDOS and go directly to the program jump to 6:33.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrwBad64xM&feature=youtu.be

Links:

https://cpcrulez.fr/applications_graphic-amsig-picture_disc_unsqueeze_and_display_program.htm

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/WACCI

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&stafftype=1&lenom=Clive%20BELLABY

If anyone is confused as to the difference between the Mandelbrot set and a Fractal (We're not all mathematicians or programmers here) the two Wikipedia links below may help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

Gryzor

Used to spend way too much time on my DX4-120 doing fractals, but never on my CPC. The effect is super nice!

LambdaMikel

Yeah, I remember FractInt on the PC... great program. And astonishingly fast given that a Mandelbrot took about 40 minutes on the CPC in MODE 1, even in machine code. 

Matthias Uphoff's Appleman program had the main routine in machine code:

https://www.michael-wessel.info/retro/CPC/SoftEx/SoftExKap01.htm
S. Program KOMGRA.BAS on this disk:
https://www.michael-wessel.info/retro/CPC/SoftEx/softex.dsk

Gryzor

Oh damn, FractInt indeed... soooo many hours (and CPU cycles) wasted!

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