EUREKA!  FRACTINT RUNS IN FREEDOS!  I have finally found the way to run it, 
that is, I found it after Ralf & Dale & others told me... "CHDIR" is the key
This only applies to the special "FreeDOS+Fractint.ova" which is 
downloadable from the Fractint.org site (Fractint 20 is built-into FreeDOS 
1.0).  Install into Oracle VirtualBox, a piece of cake (Devil's food). 
After installed as a Guest, Start it. Type CHDIR FRACTINT, enter, then type 
FRACTINT.EXE, enter, and there you are, in Fractint.
Thank you Ralf, thank you Dale, thank you all who helped!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale E Sterner" <sunbeam...@juno.com>
To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 5:00 PM
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in 
VirtualBox?


> It sounds like you are trying to do it right. You must include the path
> on your
> command. Is it possible that you are missing a file - like a license file
> in
> you directory. It may be free now but was probably once shareware that
> died
> after a period if unpurchased. Most of the time they give away the dos
> license
> free now.
> I run my dos on cf chips by itself. I have hundreds of nice programs from
> the old days.
> I built a screen menu with bat files. I type in a nunber followed by a
> letter to start my programs.
> When I exit it takes me back to c:\ where I started and redisplays the
> menu with numbers
> and letters listed for each program
>
> Good luck
> cheers
> DS
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 05:18:42 -0800 "Knute Myhrvold" <knut...@att.net>
> writes:
>> I want to run Fractint, an old DOS fractal image generater.
>> I used to run it on Win95, 98, and NT, and it will run on some
>> WinXPmachines, but not mine.
>> So I have installed VirtualBox and finally successfully installed
>> FreeDOS as a Guest in it... in the Settings I put FRACTINT.EXE and
>> all its accompanying files into a "Shared Folder" for FreeDOS.
>>
>> But I still can't run Fractint.
>> *(The Shared Folders are  C:\DOS\fractint\FRACTINT.EXE )
>>
>> The bottom of the running FreeDOS window shows C:\>_
>> By typing "dir" I see that FreeDOS DOES show Fractint!
>> By typing "dir fractint" I see that FreeDOS lists the scores of
>> files in the Fractint Folder, including "FRACTINT.EXE".
>>
>> But that's as far as I have gotten... HOW do I get FreeDOS to RUN
>> Fractint?  How is it done?
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
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>
> ******************************************************>>>>
>>From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry
> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052
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