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Short: XAnim - animation viewer 2.69.7.8, at least 68020+WB2.04
Author: Mark Podlipec/Terje Pedersen (Amiga part)
Uploader: terjepe@hstud6.cs.uit.no
Type: gfx/show
This is an amiga 'port' of the X11 animation viewer Xanim by Mark Podlipec.
It means that the program relies on my libX11 to run, and does everything
in the same manner as the X11 version does. Which means internally it uses
a chunky representation of the frames and isn't what you would call fast!
(great on my A4000/040 though!)
It uses the chunky stuff from Morten Eriksen (thanks Morten!),
which may cause problems on some gfx cards.
setenv X11/askmode 1 : xanim will pop up an asl screenmode requester
before opening the screen. (this is wb2.1+ only!)
setenv X11/gfxcard 1 : xanim will not use the chunky stuff from Morten
but WritePixelArray and other system functions. If the program loads
the anim but crashes horribly after opening the screen, try it!
setenv X11/usepub Workbench : xanim will open a window on the workbench
and display the anim there! +Cn is the default (preserves wb colors),
use -Cn to use all colors.
setenv X11/debug 1 : prints a couple of debug lines..
setenv X11/displaydepth 8 : Tells the library that you really have 8
planes screens, (if the anims shows up in 5 planes this may come in handy..)
This would probably be most useful with gfx cards but those will probably
use 'setenv X11/usepub Workbench' instead.
set stack to at least 20000! (it doesn't do any stackcheck!)
If you are trying to run this on a non AGA machine and
no gfx board either then the anims may not look too good!
(32 colors max when running 256 color anims usually looks
somewhat poor) But you will probably get a general idea as
to how it might look in 256 colors! Also not running on wb3.0+
it might easily crash if you are unlucky!
source headers say:
/*
* xanim.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1990,1991,1992,1993,1994 by Mark Podlipec.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed without
* fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this copyright notice is
* preserved intact on all copies and modified copies.
*
* There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
* It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s) all
* responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
* or its effect upon hardware or computer systems.
*
*/
So redistribute it any way you like, (if you find it worthy of the effort..)
If you can think of anything that involves my address:
Terje Pedersen
Oterveien 55
9017 Tromsoe
Norway
Podlipec did allow me to ask for a $10 contribution for using my
libX11 and the efforts needed to port the program, but this doesn't
seem to have reached the amiga public..Therefore I didn't plan to
release any more ports of xanim. But some guys on irc showed some
interest and made me do this one!
Want to know more about xanim? try:
http://www.portal.com/~podlipec/home.html "The XAnim Home Page"
And thanks to all who has suggested improvements and ways
to prevent possible problems on other configurations! (thanks Olaf!)
TP