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+XaoS - a real time fractal zoomer and morpher
+=============================================
+
+For installation instructions please see the INSTALL file.
+
+Original authors of XaoS are Jan Hubicka (jh@ucw.cz) and Thomas Marsh
+(tmarsh@tivoli.com). Many other people contributed to the project as
+well. Their list is too long to be included here. See AUTHORS file in
+the XaoS distribution.
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+------------
+
+XaoS is a fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer. It
+displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape time fractals) and
+allows you to 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 viewer by Thomas later modified by Jan to support high
+frame-rate zooming. Other additions were later made including autopilot
+(for those of you without driver licenses), palette changing, PNG
+saving, and fractal inversion.
+
+
+SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
+-------------------
+
+Starting from version 3.5, the supported platforms are:
+
+ * POSIX (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.)
+ * Microsoft Windows (XP or later)
+ * Mac OS X (10.4 or later)
+
+The following platforms were also supported in earlier versions:
+
+ * BeOS
+ * Old Macintosh versions
+ * Microsoft DOS
+ * OS/2
+ * Plan 9
+
+Due to the lack of volunteers interested in maintaing older platforms, we
+are discontinuing support for them. If you want to use XaoS on one of
+these platforms, please download an earlier version.
+
+Of course, volunteers are always welcome to resurrect support for older
+platforms or port XaoS to other platforms it doesn't currently support.
+
+
+FEATURES
+--------
+
+ * fast smooth interactive real-time zooming (even on ancient machines!)
+ * 24 fractal formulas + user defined formula
+ * autopilot
+ * menu driven interface
+ * context sensitive help and animated tutorials
+ * various colorization, post calculation filters, color cycling
+ * image/animation saving/replay
+ * image export to PNG
+ * internationalized texts
+ * configurable calculation methods
+ * real-time image rotation
+ * many example fractals
+ * switching between Mandelbrot/Julia mode
+ * fast Julia preview
+ * zooming in 6*10^16 times, zooming out 10^30 times
+ * SMP support
+
+...and many more!
+
+
+HOMEPAGE
+--------
+
+http://xaos.sf.net
+
+
+HOW TO REPORT BUGS
+------------------
+
+Please try to reproduce the bug and submit a description and output of
+
+ xaos -config
+
+to the issue tracker (http://code.google.com/p/gnuxaos/issues/list).
+
+Debugger info (backtraces and so forth) is also welcome.
+
+
+THANKS TO
+---------
+
+ * Unknown Samorai from Brazil (for $20 --- your email doesn't work)
+ * 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)
+ * Richard M. Stallman (for GNU)
+ * Linus Torvalds (for the best kernel)
+ * Tim Wegner & Bert Tyler (for Fractint)
+ * Darryl House (for making code of Fractint readable)
+
+
+NO THANKS TO
+------------
+
+ * Bill Gates