Gingerbread

Gingerbread: The Mandelbrot Music Generator v2.0

Gingerbread
The Mandelbrot Music Generator

It’s been ten years since the original release of Gingerbread, due to time constraints and long-term ill-health I had to abandon supporting it years ago. But it still seems to be regarded as the best Fractal Music generation system available and I’m still getting requests for it regularly so I’ve decided to make the original installation files available for download here.

I’m afraid it’s not as simple as a "download and install" solution to get it up and running, as the versions of Gingerbread I still use have been dramatically altered since its release and I do not have installation packages for them (or help files) that could be used by others to install and run the system on their machines. Therefore I can only offer the original Shareware download files. These include details of payments for user registration and so on, which are now obsolete.

It’s not too much of an issue to install though if you follow the instructions below.

Finally, if you want to hear the kind of music you can create with this with a little practice, you can hear MP3s of my music here or buy CDs of it here.

I hope you enjoy this little blast from the past,

Thank you for your continued interest and support,

Best wishes,

Phil Thompson
March 2008
filename size details
gb2.zip 5.2 Mb Full installation suite for v2.0.

Note: Gingerbread was originally released as shareware but is now freeware - to register and enable all of the software's features run the program and use its Help/Register menu option and enter this password:

dgbdbgbgfhbkababcc~hf

Please do not attempt to register the system using Kagi - they will still accept payments on my behalf and I cannot refund them.

Please ignore the Help menu's option to visit the Organised Chaos web-site - the domain was cybersquatted years ago and no longer takes you to any Gingerbread related site.

Due to time constraints I can no longer offer support for this system. It works fine on Windows XP, it has not been tested by myself on Windows Vista but I have been told it does work.

Finally I wrote another version of Gingerbread, subtitled The Return, but I have not provided a download as Windows XP Service Pack 2 disabled some of its features.

help.zip 35 Kb The installation files for Gingerbread contained an unfinished help document - download, unzip and install Gingerbread (gb2.zip) and then download and unzip this file and copy gb.hlp over the one found in your Gingerbread program folder, for example:

c:\program files\gingerbread\gb.hlp

colours.zip 18 Kb Optional extra colour palettes for Gingerbread's fractal browsers. Download, unzip and copy files into Gingerbread's Colours sub-folder, for example:

c:\program files\gingerbread\colours\

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