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- FLImer V1.5 Documentation
- =========================
-
-
- What is FLImer?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- FLImer is an animationplayer for Autodesk Animator (*.FLI/*.FLC)
- Files. It uses the Merlin Graphics-Board for Videooutput.
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- The author cannot be held liable for the suitability or accuracy of
- this manual and/or the program(s) it describes. Any damage directly or
- indirectly caused by the use or misuse of this manual and/or the
- program it describes is the sole responsibility of the user her/him
- self.
-
- Copyright/Distribution
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- FLImer,© Copyright 1993/94 by Reinhard Haslbeck. All rights reserved.
- This program is SHAREWARE, see below how to register. This program may
- be freely distributed as long as all documentation and executable(s)
- remain unchanged and are included with the distribution. Also no
- profit is to be made by selling this program. You may not charge more
- than Fred Fish does for a single library disk. Commercial distribution
- is NOT allowed without written permission from the author. It is
- allowed for non-commercial BBSs to distribute an archive with only the
- following files in it to save your users some money when they want to
- download this program. NOTE: All files listed below MUST be
- distributed together. None of the files listed below may be
- distributed on it's own! They may ofcourse be archived with any
- archiver.
-
- FLImer - Main Program
- FLImer.info - Icon
- FLImer.doc - Manual
- FLImer.doc.info - Icon
-
-
- How to use
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- FLImer is designed for CLI-Usage. If You start it from Workbench, no
- options are available. Copy the file 'FLImer' to 'C:' and type 'FLImer
- ?'. This will display all options available:
-
-
- FILE/M,L=LOOPS/K/N,FS=FORCESPEED/K/N,R=RESOLUTION/K/N,QUIET/S:
-
-
- FILE:
- Simply the name of the *.FL?-File you want to see. If no
- Filename is entered, a Filerequester will appear. AmigaDos-
- style pattern-matching is also supportet.
-
- LOOPS:
- How often the animation will restart. Disabled in this unre-
- gistered version.
-
- FORCESPEED:
- Overrides the animspeed given by the *.FLI-file. If it's set to
- zero the anim is played as fast as possible. Since there's no
- legal way to sync the anim to the Merlin-Hardware, it's
- syncronized to the Amiga-Videohardware.
-
- RESOLUTION:
- This forces FLImer to open the Merlin-Screen in a custom size.
- RESOLUTION must be one of these: 320, 640, 800, 1024, 1280. If
- your choosen resolution is lower than the width of the
- Flic-File, the program will break with an error. This option
- will slow down the animation replay a bit.
-
- QUIET:
- Skips all Outputs to Stdout and the delays at the beginning.
- Useful for scripts.
-
- This unregistered version will wait a few seconds before it starts its
- work!
-
-
- Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - An Amiga Computer with a Merlin pluged in
- - Amiga OS2.04 +
-
-
- Development
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- This program was developed on an A3000/25 with O.M.A. 2.0.
-
-
- History (for FLIcasso, FLItina and FLImer)
- ~~~~~~~
- Changes from V1.4 to V1.5:
- - initial release of FLImer
- - Faster (if no custom resolutions selected)
-
- Changes from V1.3 to V1.4:
- - Added option 'RESOLUTION'
- - Fixed bug in FLC-Delta Decoder
-
- Changes from V1.2 to V1.3:
- - FLC-Support
-
- Changes from V1.1 to V1.2:
- - Pattern matching to view multiple files
- - Optimized on several parts
-
- Changes from V1.0 to V1.1:
- - Startable from Workbench via Icon
-
-
- How to register
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To get Your own, full featured version of FLImer, send
-
- * An empty floppydisk (880K)
- * A stamped envelope addressed to Yourself
- (non-stamped if You're no German)
- * The sharefee (10,-DM for Germans, $10 otherwise)
-
- TO:
-
- Reinhard Haslbeck
- Spirknerstr. 7
- 84137 Vilsbiburg
-
- GERMANY
-
-
- Special thanks to
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - Volker Rudolph for coding the special Merlin parts in 'FLImer'
- - My brother Walter for some debug hints
- - Helmut Waege for former Retina tests
- - Hans Maurer for the aminet-distribution of the demo-versions
- - Richard Kinder for the FLC-docs
-
-
- Contact the author
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Address: Reinhard Haslbeck
- Spirknerstr. 7
- 84137 Vilsbiburg
- GERMANY
-
- Phone: +49/(0)87418676
-
- Internet: haslbeck@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
-