This is list of main XaoS features. Those marked as [New] were added in version 3.0:
- Fast smooth interactive real-time zooming. Even on 486!
- 11 fractal formulas: Mandelbrot power 2 - Mandelbrot power 6, octo, Barnsley, Newton, Phoenix, Magnet
- Autopilot (enhanced in this version)
- [NEW] 8bpp, hi-color, real-color, black&white, true-color (24 or 32bpp) support
- [NEW] random palettes
- [NEW] Saving to PNG files
- [NEW] Saving/restoring current position
- [NEW] Animation save/replay
- [NEW] Animated tutorials:
- Introduction to fractals: Introduction and the Mandelbrot set, Higher power Mandelbrots, Newton's method, Barnsley's formula, Phoenix, Octo, Magnet
- Features overview: Out-coloring modes, In-coloring modes, True-color coloring modes, Filters, Planes, Animations and position files, Perturbation, Random palettes, Other noteworthy features

What's new

- Supported languages for tutorials: English, Francais, Cesky, Deutsch
- [NEW] 10 out-coloring modes + 10 in-coloring modes
- [NEW] 10 true-color coloring modes
- [NEW] Boundary detection
- [NEW] Periodicity checking
- [NEW] Unrolled calculation loops
- [NEW] Real-time image rotation
- [NEW] More than 50 examples
- [NEW] An AA driver that provides high quality ASCII art rendering at many platforms (see AA-project home-page at http://www.ta.jcu.cz/aa)
- both Mandelbrot and Julia forms of fractals
- fast Julia preview (now for all formulas)
- special image stretching algorithm for fast zooming (150 FPS on pentium 130 in full-screen 320x200 mode)
- solid guessing
- many supported platforms including text mode drivers
- zoom up to 64051194700380384 times
- UN-zooms more than 1267966761981568116729735090176 times
- Color cycling
- Dynamic resolution
- Fast Julia browsing mode
- Supports non-standard monitor sizes
- [NEW] SMP support
- POSIX threads API
- [NEW] post calculation filters: motion blur, Random dot stereograms in animation, Interlace filter, Two edge detection filters, Star-field generator, Emboss, Palette emulation filter
- [NEW] Dithering on devices w/o user defined palette