Basic Mandelbrot - a beautiful, nostalgic thing
pik33
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in Propeller 2
Long, long time ago I rewrote a program from a German magazine into the 8-bit Atari. The program was called "Apfelmännchen" and after several hours of working it plotted a Mandelbrot fractal on the TV connected to this Atari.
So, when I found a text mode mandelbrot example in Flexprop directory, I attached a video driver to it, changed the text mode to 800x480 graphics and run. A nostalgic thing: much faster than Atari version, but still slow, drawing the fractal line by line.
Rewriting this to fixed point should make it much faster....
The code is in this repository: https://github.com/pik33/P2-retromachine in Propeller directory
Comments
It would be interesting to try porting XaoS.