FRAC and FRAC4D for DOS

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FRAC and FRAC4D for DOS

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Here's a 3D Tetris game I wrote along with now famous cosmology professor Max Tegmark back in the 1990s.
We released into the free way back.

http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/frac.htm
http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/s/files/dos/frac21.zip
4D: http://www.download-central.ws/DOS/Tetris/F/Frac4D/

Also comes in a more advanced Mac version that requires pretty old hardware to run.

Enjoy,
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Hello Per, and welcome to the forums! :)

Thanks a lot for sharing your games!!! They sure look awesome :)
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Those are some good looking games! I don't think I've ever seen fractals in a Tetris game before. I also think it's the first time I've seen it in an EGA program (I've seen it in CGA, though!).
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Wow that's amazing Max Tegmark was involved! Thanks for posting!

@DOSGuy: Does the MANDEL.BAS example that came with QuickBASIC (which looks like this) count as an EGA fractal program?
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Interesting! I had a copy of QuickBASIC 4.5, but I don't remember that program.
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Malvineous wrote:@DOSGuy: Does the MANDEL.BAS example that came with QuickBASIC (which looks like this) count as an EGA fractal program?
Now I suddenly remember that I wrote fractal programs in turbo pascal a few years ago! :D
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Re: FRAC and FRAC4D for DOS

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@permb, the links you posted are dead now. Would you or anyone else be able to upload frac4d?

P.S. I knew Max at Berkeley. He once helped me plan a trip to Göteborg.
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Re: FRAC and FRAC4D for DOS

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The pages are preserved by the Wayback Machine:
http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/frac.htm
http://www.download-central.ws/DOS/Tetris/F/Frac4D/

You can download Frac4D as well, but not the original Frac (maybe somewhere else).

UPD: Found a version from 1990, don't know what version number yet: FRAC.ZIP.
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