True Mandel 1.5


License agreement

You have a free trial period of 30 days. Later on you have to register this program or delete it from your hard disk.
You can distribute unregistered version of this program freely among your friends or other persons in all ways (bbs and internet included).
You can edit or modify this program in no way without the author's permission.
To include unregistered version of this program in any large distribution way (i.e. newspapers, cdroms, floppies) you must ask the author's authorization (can use email) and send a copy to author.
Registered versions can't be copied or distribuited either wholly as partially.
Password license is intended for a single person that uses it on a single computer.
All private uses of fractal images are allowed. 
If you use them for a commercial project (i.e. books or poster) please contact the author.
For other questions you can always contact the author.


Introduction

True Mandel was born when I had to print some fractal images and some simple posters with epson stylus color. I realized that there was no true color fractal generator for windows in shareware market... So I programmed it by myself.
I did not optimize the first version's algorithm 'cause I didn't need it, I called it UbiMandel (from my name) and I wrote it with Visual Basic 3.
When I bought Delphi I wondered what simple program I could do... So I restarted to code another fractal program. I begun it in May 1995 and I finished in October 1995. I released it on internet as True Mandel 1.0 (trmand10.zip). True Mandel stands for True Color Mandelbrot Set Generator.
Meanwhile I was employed as a programmer in a small multimedia publishing house.
I planned to work on it a lot during the Winter for the next versions. However my new job took me a lot of time.
So this version is two months late... 
Your feedback was very appreciated... I received tens of letters both email and paper. 
So you'll go on writing me and I'll continue to develop this program.


Hardware requirement

True Mandel 1.5 runs quite well on a Pentium 166 Mhz with 32 Mb of ram and a Matrox Millennium with 4Mb of Wram. ;-)
However you need a 486 (er.. actually 386 + 387 works too) or better and MS Windows 3.1 or later. I didn't test it under MS Windows NT and Os/2 but I think they should give no problems.
True Mandel doesn't need a true color graphics card. However I strongly recommend it, at least with 32000 colors. True color means over 16 million colors (2^ 24).
With Windows 95 you have to right click on desktop to set number of colors.



How to install True Mandel 1.5

Simply copy all the files in a new directory. Guided setup will come with next versions.
Previous version user can delete all file but images (*.mnd, *.bmp) and then copy new files. However both TrueMandel versions can run together.
If you want you can associate mnd and mnl extansions to Trmand15.exe from File Manager or Explorer. In this case you can start True Mandel with selected fractal simply double-clicking on fractal file. If you don't know how to do it... check it on Windows manual or Help.