Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 11:37:44 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: XaoS - fast fractal zoomer
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Experimental MS-DOS port os XaoS-fast realtime fractal zoomer for unix
is now avaliable at:

 ftp://ftp.ta.jcu.cz/pub/msdos/hubicka/xaos-dos.zip


This is fully featured version. Please let me know, how it works. 
Non beta version will be released with XaoS-1.1.

(if DNS names dont work use adress:194.212.19.3)

You may also browse its homepage at http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS

original readme:


                                    >X a o S<

CREDITS:
	Jan Hubicka	(hubicka AT limax DOT paru DOT cas DOT cz)
	Thomas Marsh	(amadeus AT bga DOT com)

INTRODUCTION:
	XaoS is a real-time interactive fractal zoomer for X Windows and
	SVGAlib. It displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape
	time fractals) and allows you zoom smoothly into the fractal.
	Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and
	outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Julia and
	Mandelbrot fractal types is provided. The first version was a
	poorly written Mandelbrot view by Thomas later modified by Jan to
	support high frame-rate zooming. Other additions were later made
	including autopilot (for those of you without drivers licenses),
	palette changing, GIF saving, and fractal inversion.

REQUIREMENTS:
	XaoS, by default, uses floating point math for its calculations.
	This may be slow on some computers. The program was developed on a
	Pentium running at 100 MHz, so we can't guaranty that it will run 
	well on any slower system. If you just want to catch a cursory
	glance at XaoS' capabilities on faster systems then you might try
	compiling it for fixed point arithmetic by editing config.h
	accordingly.

	To compile XaoS, UNIX and X Windows (or SVGAlib for Linux) is
	required. We are discussing the possibility of porting it to OS/2.
	Your C compiler must be ANSI compliant. GNU CC is highly
	recommended. An 8-bit display is required at this point since we
	haven't coded for TrueColor displays yet.

HOMEPAGE:
	U.S.:	http://www.realtime.net/~amadeus/XaoS/
	Europe:	http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/

INSTALL:
	Installation methods are described in the file "INSTALL".

USAGE:
	XaoS has no command line options as of yet. It is one entirely
	self contained executable. Runtime help is provided by typing "H".

THANKS TO:
	Stanislav "XaoS" Mikes
		- for the name of our program
	Borislav Deianov
		- for sharing ideas
	Isaac Newton
		- for discovering his method
	Benoit B. Mandelbrot
		- for ordering the Julia sets
	Linus Torvalds
		- for the best operating system
	Tim Wegner & Bert Tyler
		- for Fractint
	Darryl House
		- for making Fractint's code readable

NO THANKS TO:
	Bill Gates