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CYRA CarGo 95
Welcome fellow wax makers, let's begin.
First of all, you may be wondering what Cyra is and what Cyra can do.
Cyra is the culmination of all of my work in hacking waxes over the
summer. It's been a real ride.
Cyra is a sequencer/editor/viewer for DF's animated cells and frames
and sequences and waxes. Yes there is a grouping of "waxes" within
most wax files. Everything in a wax file is based around the cell.
Waxes point to sequences, sequences point to frames and frames point
to cells. You won't need to know any of that stuff cause Cyra has
been written as a GUI of sorts and keeps track of that stuff for you.
Cyra also knows Fmecad. That means you can convert DF's Wax files
into Fmecad's Pac files for editing/drawing and load a group of Pac
files for conversion to Wax format. Also, you can view any Pac file
through Cyra's Pacview routine. Sound interesting?
Well, well, well... Through Cyra's Config section, you can change
PacDir and WaxDir and PalDir on the fly assuming they are set
up properly beforehand. A valid PalDir must have a 768 byte file
named Bemypal.pal in it and a valid PacDir must have at least one
valid Pac file, from 1.pac to 200.pac, in it and a valid WaxDir must
have at least one Wax file in it. Need a Bemypal.pal file? Either
rename one of DF's or download BEMYPAL CarGo 95. Need a Pac file?
Download FMECAD CarGo 95 or the shareware FRAMED CarGo 95.
Here is my directory structure on my puter.
c:\
DF\
FMECAD\
FMECAD.EXE
PACFILES.PAC
BEMYPAL.PAL
WAX\
DFWAXES.WAX
Start up
Some first time directory setup needs to be performed by you before
firing it up for the first time. Reread the previous paragraph and
come back here when you are finished.
When editing directorys in Cyra's Config section, a backslash MUST
end the line. So.. "PACDIR:c:\df\fmecad" will not work while
"WAXDIR:c:\df\wax\" will be accepted.
Windows 95
Works very well. Try loading several occurances of Cyra then
ALT-TAB yourself around. Cyra uses no extended memory and loads waxes
and pacs individually from the hard drive. Since that is the case, each
cell in a wax will be decompressed then displayed simultaneously. And
you will notice that Pac frames display much faster since there is no
compression to deal with and the Pac frames are shot to the screen
as one picture instead of pixel by pixel.
Cyra is keyboard controlled and displays in either text mode for editing
or graphics mode 320 x 200 x 256 for showing the pics.