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The VideoScape program disk contains the Aegis/Sparta
ShowANIM program. ShowANIM, which may be freely
distributed, will play ANIM's created with any product that
supports the ANIM format. PlayANIM may not be distributed.
ShowANIM is designed so that you can create self-booting
demo disks. It uses a single command line (CLI) argument.
You can edit the startup-sequence in the s directory of a
Workbench disk to automatically play an animation that you
have created. This could be used for the startup of a program or
disk-based magazine.
Note: ANIM's created in VideoScape Version 1.10 will only
run on ShowANIM version 4.0 (or greater). The current
version of PlayANIM does not support these yet.
ShowANIM provides the following options for playback:
-L# - Non-continuous loop play, where # is the number of times
to play. If you don't enter a number, the ANIM will run 1000
times.
-C# - Continuous loop play, where # is the number of times to
play. If you don't enter a number, the ANIM will run 1000
times.
Note: Your ANIM must contain a two-frame overlap in order to
run continuously. In other words, the first two frames must be
the same as the last two frames. This applies even if the action
depicted in the ANIM does not complete a cycle; otherwise,
you'll see some clutter on the screen.
+# - Timing between frames in jiffies, where # is the number of
jiffies. A jiffy is 1/60 of a second; therefore, divide 60 by the
number you entered to find out how many frames will play per
second. For example, +6 is 10 frames per second and +2 is 30
frames per second, which is a good rate for video work.
To run ShowANIM:
-At the CLI prompt, type ShowANIM, space, the desired
option, and the filename. For example, if you wanted to run in a
continous loop an ANIM named MyANIM, which was on a disk
in df1:, you would enter:
ShowANIM -C DF1:MyANIM.
-Use CTRL-C to abort the ANIM.