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I'm probably being very silly here, but is there a procedure for installing apophysis?

I have the .exe of v2.09, but I can't seem to access the internal help file, or access any plugins

am I missing something??

any help will stop me from pulling what is left of my hair!!!

hmm, that sound veeeeeeeeeeeeery strange, i am not aware about your previous installations, have you installed to a clean folder ? i mean just unpacked and clicked the.exe

I don't have a previous installation

Only the .exe off of souceforge

so, what do you mean by "access the help file"?

 
  - what is the link of the download

beside of this, apophysis is a quite abandoded and rather dead project, no real developer is maintaining it, please use more active flame fractal editors,
for example:

- chaotica - it can easily load and edit flame fractals made with apophyis, it is under active development, and has a very decent user interface
http://www.chaoticafractals.com/

- jwildfire - as well a very decent and advanced flame fractal editor, grab it here:;
http://www.andreas-maschke.com/?page_id=42

both programs are actively developed and far more capable than apophysis - believe me - and i think both programs can load apophysis files, so, give them both a try, they are both very good flame fractal editors, actually, apophysis is more like a proof of concept, rather than a worked out piece of software, and apophysis has not been updated by the original developer for - i think - more than ten years, so, either get it working or describe more detailed what kind of plugins your are talking about...
 

Thanks for the info

I'll try the ones you have posted