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I know you've had this web page available for people to reference for a long time, and it's been quite a while since I last visited it, until I saw your post here.  I'm glad I just went there because I saw a few items I didn't know about.

Thanks for keeping us all informed with everything !!!!!

I am glad you found this list amazing.  

From my last count on fractal related applications, it comes to a little over 600.  I would say 95 percent of those render images.

And I do have a lot of things that may be referenced from my site, so have a look around and follow the links found there.    
 

I have no experience with 64 bit stuffs.

Does a 64 bit system run software made for 32 bit systems?  I know the reverse is not possible, but not sure about the question you are asking.

I know some of the older ones wont even run smoothly on Vista 32 bit!  Micro$oft is not as good at backward compatibility as they used to be...

I'd say just give it a try and find out

Can't hurt too much...

One can usually run those old dos programs in Dosbox... So if you still want to experiment with those programs, you could give it a try.

For some old programs I'm using VirtualBox with installed Windows XP, Windows NT4.0 and DOS. Everything works very well. Some very old 16-bit applications work slower because of CPU emulation.  32-bit programs works with normal speed because VisrualBox is not an emulator but virtualisation environment.

That list of sites is in the order of what the "Fractal Census" shows as software most often tried/used by people.  And I really do need to update that page some more to indicate which ones will run without problems under both Windows Vista and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).  Let me just say that most of the ones which show as Win-XP will run fine under Vista-64.  (I know for I have run and tested a few hundred of them already.)    


It is not that a few of us have DOS as our main OS, it is more that we keep a machine (or more) available that is capable of running some of the older software programs.  I have on an old P-III that has Win-98SE for just this reason (and it gets used almost everyday to render Jim Muth's FOTD).


Several weeks ago, an individual posted an email to another discussion list about getting FractInt working in Vista under DOSBox by using the open source application called "D-Fend Reloaded".  And I gave it a try as well to see how it performed.  It ran quite fast on my machine, much faster than I had expected.

If you are serious about using some of the much older applications, then I can create a topic within the Forums for how to go about setting everything up.