                                    >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 but it can be easily ported to all architectures where graphics
	library and _GOOD_ optimizing ANSI c compiler (i.e. gcc) is available.
	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 and
	displaying planes 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 120 MHz, but it can work quite well on 486Dx/2.
	I also received nice letters from users using XaoS at 386/40 or so.
	Coprocessor is _REALLY_ required.

	To compile XaoS, DOS, Plan9 or UNIX with X11 or curses (or SVGAlib 
	for Linux) is required. We are discussing the possibility of porting 
	it to OS/2 and Amiga. Your C compiler must be ANSI compliant. 
	GNU CC is highly recommended. For now XaoS requires 8bpp Pseudo-Color, 
	15,16,24 or 32bpp True-color modes are required for X11 driver.

FTP:
	XaoS comes in various files:
	XaoS-2.0.tar.gz		sources
	XaoS*.rpm		Red-hat packages
	XaoS*.deb		Debian packages (comming bit later than other ones..)
	xaos20s.zip		Sources in zip format for DOS users
	xaos20b.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

HOME-PAGE:
	Europe:	http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/  (new tutorial included)
	U.S.:	http://www.realtime.net/~amadeus/XaoS/ (This page is REALLY 
	                                                outdated!
							browse European one!)

INSTALL:
	Installation methods are described in the file "INSTALL".

USAGE:
	Since version 2.0 XaoS have lots of command line options. 
	They are depend on its configuration, available drivers etc.
	See xaos -h for full help. Usually more than one driver is
	available. XaoS after startup tries to auto-detect best one.
	For example in Linux case tests driver in following order:
	  SVGAlib
	  X11/MITSHM and then X11
	  curses
	If you want to force text display instead of graphics you may
	use -driver curses. Use xaos -list for list of all available
	drivers.

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
