>X a o S<

CREDITS:
	Jan Hubicka	(hubicka@limax.paru.cas.cz)
	Thomas Marsh	(amadeus@bga.com) (not available for now)

INTRODUCTION:
	XaoS is a real-time interactive fractal zoomer for DOS, Plan9, X11 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, DOS, Plan9 or UNIX and X11 (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.

FTP:
	XaoS comes in various files:
	XaoS-1.2.tar.gz		sources
	XaoS*.rpm		Redhat packages
				Debian packages will be avaiable soon
	xaos12s.zip		Sources in zip format for DOS users
	xaos12b.zip		.exe file for DOS

	All can be found at following site:
	ftp.ta.jcu.cz	/pub/linux/hubicka

	UNIX version:
	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming (will be moved somewhere)
	tsx-11.mit.edu	now in /incoming..will be placed into 
	                /pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin
		        or    /sources
	ftp.x.org	/contrib/graphics

	MS-DOS version:
	ftp.simtel.net  /pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics

HOMEPAGE:
	Europe:	http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/  (This page will be updated soon)
	U.S.:	http://www.realtime.net/~amadeus/XaoS/ (This page is REALLY outtated
							browse European one!)

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