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It must be capable of producing a smooth zoom (on modern hardware) I have been looking and downloaded a few but they are all kinda slow.

I used to have one that was absolutely flying, but I can't remember what it was called.

Platform: Windows XP/Vista/7

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This is pretty off-topic for Programmers, but I'm not sure if there's another SE site that is more suitable. – Anna Lear♦ Apr 2 '11 at 15:46
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@Anna Lear - 'thus true, although in his defense, I agree that there aren't that many professions out there that deal with this stuff, apart from programmers. Therefore, letting it stay open. Doesn't bother me, and maybe it'll help the chap. – Rook Apr 2 '11 at 16:21
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@Anna Lear - I tend to agree with @Rook .. in fact many of us play with these for simple recreation. I think it's just enough on the 'on topic' side of the fence to stay. Posting this on Super User would probably result in "ManderHUH?", posting it on Math would result in "Get out of here, whipper snapper!", posting it on SO would result in "GET OFF MY LAWN!". – Tim Post♦ Apr 2 '11 at 16:43
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@TimPost Yeah, but in general a post not being suitable elsewhere doesn't automatically make it okay for Programmers. That said, I agree that this is on the fence enough to stay. – Anna Lear♦ Apr 2 '11 at 17:03
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Were you thinking of Fractint? There are multiple pages that claim to be the real homepage. – oosterwal Apr 3 '11 at 5:27
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Fastest one I ever came across was MandFXP, which is old, but still available. No idea if there's been better ones since.

Edit: There's also http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickman/ which is a tiny download and very fast on my machine - haven't tried comparing the two.

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Thanks. Quickman WAS quick, but sadly caused a hardware reset twice now. Don't think I'll be running it again. It may have been overheating since there was another unexplained hardware reset yesterday and the machine was very hot both times.. In the end I remembered the name of the one I used to have: FFFF – user21981 Apr 3 '11 at 1:45
@Tom, if you have a hardware reset, you may have an issue with your hardware or drivers which quickman just triggers but is not the cause of. – user1249 May 13 '11 at 7:48
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If you have a CUDA capable NVidia video card pick up the CUDA SDK and build the included Mandelbrot demo.

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Thanks. I'll put this on my todo list :) – user21981 Apr 3 '11 at 1:48
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This one uses javascript, fast on chrome, intuitive zoom:

Mandelbrot set generator in HTML5.

Can be saved and used locally.

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