Version 1.5.0.275 is Finally Here!    Merry Holidays!

This version has complete Fractal Work File Saving and Opening, with File Explorer Thumbnail Previews. Also the sound handling has been completely rebuilt and now works on All 32 and 64 bit Windows OSes. Many bug fixes and inprovement.

ManyFractals_1.5.0.275_full.exe

MD5 value:
009B9E1E7A7D6AA2383EF2DDC44F6B0A  
SHA1 value:
3FC72B1D4F21C88B80DC624F8F95CB4828D0DACB

ManyFractals_1.5.0.275_2K-7.msi
MD5 value:
206FE1390C9F6D3A8F196F8661CF832D
SHA1 value:
C4F562602F6AF644B24918F13D46928E9A21E26E

Version 1.5.0.275 Notes:

The big new thing in this version are Fractal Files: *.mff_xml which allow users to Save their work and open it at a later time. There are Thumbnail previews in Windows File Explorer. The files can be opened by Double-Clicking them from file explorer. There are settings for the quality, type and size of the thumbnail to be put into the mff_xml file. All settings, including the colors used, are saved in the file. As the file extension is called mff_xml, it is an xml file and can be read with any text editor. The Sound system has been completely rebuilt using the BASS Audio Library and now works fine on all x64 Oses. There is also a mini internet Radio tuner built in for a Audio Source. There is an Audio settings panel that allows different sound sources to be selected. There is now a splash screen at start up. Unfortunately, the help file still has not been updated, sorry. An updated version 1.5.1.??? will be out resonably soon that will have an updated help file. The help authoring tools are in the process of being switched out, and this has caused delays, but I wanted everyone to be able to start using the new mff_xml file saving without further delays.

Version number has now been standardized. The sequence is : Major . Minor . build . revision , where revision value is an ongoing count across all higher order values.

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Version 1.50.00 Still a W.I.P. , but the Alpha 2 release is out on May 3, 2011 !

Sorry about the delay, Everybody. Much work is being done. See Announcements : Version 1.5 in the Forum.

Version 1.49.08 Alpha2 is available for download ! This Alpha will NOT uninstall previous versions. It has many bug fixes, and the Color EDitor and Preview work almost without issue. The Color Files and all The graphics file types work, and better that ever before. Most (All?) crashes have been fixed, though a few oddities still exist, so Enjoy !

MD5 value:
3C8E8F2CBBE19F3174CAB86340ACCEBE
ManyFractals_1.49.08-1.50-Alpha_win2K-7.msi
SHA1 value:
C98B08E3EB3A77BC16D074F0E45D1FCB5D977720
ManyFractals_1.49.08-1.50-Alpha_win2K-7.msi

MD5 value:
766C1A702CE0FE4A5BDCFE2898590482
ManyFractals_1.49.08-1.50-Alpha_full.exe
SHA1 value:
F428ED1D60439032F50F8BB62482699AAA3FF50A
ManyFractals_1.49.08-1.50-Alpha_full.exe

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Version 1.45.02 with Image Dragging, Size-Scrolling, and Color Files !

MD5/SHA1 values for the 3 installers:

ManyFractals_1.45.02_win2000.msi :
MD5 value:
96D7BD3914F2057292CFF5CF87DCCB38
SHA1 value:
F72C32C107E883BEA423C73BD4DC13C44525E255
ManyFractals_1.45.02_win2000.msi

ManyFractals_1.45.02_full.exe :
MD5 value:
D88C197B9D3CA38FF652362930E90634
SHA1 value:
9DB84EB829D0AF89A69D12C262B33E987B3A1802
ManyFractals_1.45.02_full.exe

ManyFractals_1.45.02_winXP-7.msi :
MD5 value:
4BF844787BCBBFC02DB8FFEE697B6CAB
SHA1 value:
21BB24121AF2A6EE3C0961815B4C31828D6AC80F
ManyFractals_1.45.02_winXP-7.msi

Version 1.45.02 Notes:

Added: Image Dragging and Size-Scrolling, so now you can 'slide' the image around, or 'unfurl' new area by sizing the App. Added a Menu to the Color Editor, which is the control on the bottom of the color tab in the control panel. On the Menu, is the ability to open and save color files. 2 file formats are currently available, FractalInt's .map files and SuperMap files, which are backward compatible with .map files. SuperMap files are a type of text file containing red-green-blue and ALPHA values and can hold up to 34,000,000 colors !

Improvements: began centralized error handling, which will require a minor re-engineering project to be used everywhere in the code.

Fixes: ... can remember ... forgot to document ...   :-)

Next Version:  'tracing out' set points and 2 more color methods to add. Better Sound handling. Finish menu for the Color Editor. Improve Color Quality on 16 - 256 color and 16 bit bitmaps and icons. Full Screen Display mode ! Update to a newer version of QuickLZ, for faster and multi-threaded compression.

OH ! ... and of course, UPDATE The Help File !!!

Version 1.45.01 Notes:

Added: Image Centering where you can select a point to center on or you can select an Area to center on ! Also Added an option of scaling the Magnify-Zoom Box from the center, instead of by the corner. I put these options in an easy access menu called 'Mouse Function' where you can select what the mouse cursor means/does, ie: Magnify, Pick Julia points, Center the current image, or make a new Centered Image, and in the Final release version, Drag-Scroll image. There is now a Right-Click Context Menu available when you Right-Click on the image, instead of previously just meaning 'GO' !

Improvements: 'e-Smoothing' performance has been greatly increased. Eye-Candy performance as well. Raw Data Compression on Gradient Color images now can compress the data, before the data was incompressible. The speed performance of Gradient Coloring over-all has been improved, without loss of quality. The Magnify-Zoom has been some what re-engineered, and is 'dead-on' accurate, it was accurate before in the coordinates it produced, but had slight disagreement with the visual representation. What you see INSIDE the Magnify-Zoom Box is exactly what you get for the area of an image !

Fixes: added term 'Bailout' to abs(Z) Limit in Control Panel. fixed mis-handling of raw data, with Gradient Coloring, in Auto-Magnify and a sound variable used with Eye-Candy's Peak Meter.

Final Release Version:  Image Drag-Scrolling, .map color files and 'tracing out' set points and 2 more color methods to add. Better Sound handling. A menu for the Color Editor. Improve Color Quality on 16 - 256 color and 16 bit bitmaps and icons. Full Screen Display mode ! Update to a newer version of QuickLZ, for faster and multi-threaded compression.

OH ! ... and of course, UPDATE The Help File to version 1.45.01 !!!