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  1. Short: Lib to handle eXtra Fast Animation anims
  2.  
  3. Uploader: classx@pisoft.it <Michele Puccini // ClassX Development Italy>
  4.  
  5. Author: classx@pisoft.it <Michele Puccini // ClassX Development Italy>
  6.  
  7. Type: util/libs
  8.  
  9. During the development of X-DVE, our titling/animation system, one of the
  10. first problems I had to face was to choose an animation format suited
  11. for video resolutions (meaning both PAL and NTSC) fast enough to play 
  12. smooth, even with high resolution and "deep" screens.
  13. I started to test the various standard animation formats, like Anim-5,
  14. Anim-7 etc. but they were all too slow and gave other extra features
  15. (like multiple palette handling, multi frame rates, complete multitasking)
  16. which I could stand without.
  17. The only anim format very near to my requirements was SCALA's anim 32I, but:
  18. - there was no documentation for it.
  19. - it was smooth enough, but trying to swith caches off (68040) display
  20. started to flash, making me think of a wrong double buffering tecnique.
  21. So, I decided to start working on a new compression tecnique (XFA) that
  22. now is in your hands.
  23. If you are developing animation programs and you need a fast, compact,
  24. reliable, powerful anim format, be sure this library is for you.
  25. xfa.library includes all the functions you need for packing, unpacking,
  26. playing, loading and saving IFF-XFA animations.
  27.  
  28.  
  29. ============================= Archive contents =============================
  30.  
  31. Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
  32. -------- ------- ----- --------- --------  -------------
  33.     1233     593 51.9% 24-Apr-96 17:56:56  XFA_Library/AmigaE.info
  34.     1233     596 51.6% 24-Apr-96 17:57:18  XFA_Library/Blitz.info
  35.      396     219 44.6% 24-Apr-96 17:57:18  XFA_Library/Blitz/LIB_XFA.bb.info
  36.      396     219 44.6% 24-Apr-96 17:57:18  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PACK.bb.info
  37.      396     218 44.9% 24-Apr-96 17:57:18  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PLAY.bb.info
  38.     1233     599 51.4% 24-Apr-96 17:57:32  XFA_Library/C.info
  39.      513     254 50.4% 24-Apr-96 17:56:24  XFA_Library/XFA_Library.DOC.info
  40.      396     220 44.4% 24-Apr-96 17:57:18  XFA_Library/Blitz/AnimToXFA.bb.info
  41.     1934     821 57.5% 21-Jun-95 15:29:44  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA2IFF.ascii
  42.     1622     757 53.3% 21-Jun-95 15:29:34  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA2IFF.bb
  43.      396     223 43.6% 24-Apr-96 17:57:18  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA2IFF.bb.info
  44.      396     220 44.4% 24-Apr-96 17:57:18  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_INFO.bb.info
  45.      488     251 48.5% 20-Jun-95 18:55:44  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PLAY.bb
  46.      852     441 48.2% 15-May-95 14:43:10  XFA_Library/Blitz/AnimToXFA.bb
  47.     1952     672 65.5% 20-Jun-95 17:24:28  XFA_Library/Blitz/blitzlibs/amigalibs/xfa.library1
  48.     1226     157 87.1% 21-Jun-95 15:29:34  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA2IFF.bb.xtra
  49.      672     313 53.4% 15-May-95 14:44:04  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_INFO.ascii
  50.      589     292 50.4% 15-May-95 14:43:56  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_INFO.bb
  51.     1478     595 59.7% 15-May-95 14:44:26  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PACK.bb
  52.     1131     539 52.3% 15-May-95 14:42:42  XFA_Library/Blitz/AnimToXFA.ascii
  53.     1226     121 90.1% 15-May-95 14:43:10  XFA_Library/Blitz/AnimToXFA.bb.xtra
  54.     1980     709 64.1% 02-May-95 14:48:24  XFA_Library/Blitz/LIB_XFA.ascii
  55.     1226     193 84.2% 15-May-95 14:43:56  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_INFO.bb.xtra
  56.      608     290 52.3% 20-Jun-95 18:56:08  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PLAY.ascii
  57.     1226     193 84.2% 20-Jun-95 18:55:44  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PLAY.bb.xtra
  58.     1937     700 63.8% 02-May-95 14:29:16  XFA_Library/Blitz/LIB_XFA.bb
  59.     1226     194 84.1% 02-May-95 14:29:16  XFA_Library/Blitz/LIB_XFA.bb.xtra
  60.     1729     655 62.1% 15-May-95 14:44:32  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PACK.ascii
  61.     1226     191 84.4% 15-May-95 14:44:26  XFA_Library/Blitz/XFA_PACK.bb.xtra
  62.      635     323 49.1% 23-May-95 11:54:02  XFA_Library/Installation.DOC
  63.     1498     571 61.8% 20-Jun-95 17:23:28  XFA_Library/xfa.fd
  64.    38277   11518 69.9% 24-Apr-96 17:52:40  XFA_Library/XFA_Library.DOC
  65.      478     260 45.6% 06-Sep-95 15:55:02  XFA_Library/AmigaE/Modules/libraries/xfa.m
  66.      587     257 56.2% 06-Sep-95 15:55:02  XFA_Library/AmigaE/Modules/xfa.m
  67.     4807     967 79.8% 20-Jun-95 17:42:56  XFA_Library/C/clib/xfa_protos.h
  68.     1408     598 57.5% 02-May-95 12:58:14  XFA_Library/C/libraries/xfa.h
  69.     2071     524 74.6% 20-Jun-95 17:24:22  XFA_Library/C/pragmas/xfa_pragmas.h
  70.      218     144 33.9% 09-Apr-96 15:46:14  XFA_Library/C/proto/xfa.h
  71.     1969     844 57.1% 06-Sep-95 15:55:02  XFA_Library/AmigaE/examples/xfa2iff.e
  72.     1164     563 51.6% 06-Sep-95 15:55:00  XFA_Library/AmigaE/examples/xfa_Info.e
  73.     1423     639 55.0% 06-Sep-95 15:55:00  XFA_Library/AmigaE/examples/xfa_play.e
  74.    28552   15040 47.3% 15-Apr-96 16:51:22  XFA_Library/xfa.library020
  75.    28552   15041 47.3% 15-Apr-96 16:53:28  XFA_Library/xfa.library030
  76.    28552   15052 47.2% 15-Apr-96 16:55:34  XFA_Library/xfa.library040
  77.     1233     597 51.5% 24-Apr-96 17:56:24  XFA_Library.info
  78.    29808   15212 48.9% 15-Apr-96 16:49:08  XFA_Library/xfa.library000
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  80.   202148   89595 55.6% 24-Apr-96 17:59:08   46 files
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