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H C M A K E
Version 1.1
May 20 , 1993
A 32,768 Color Animation Maker for HiColor SuperVGA
Copyright 1990,1993 Synergrafix Consulting
All right reserved.
HCMAKE is produced by:
Steve Enns Dan Magosse
44 Macdermid Cres. and 1321 14th St.
Saskatoon, Sk. Saskatoon, Sk.
Canada S7J 2R2 Canada
in association with:
Synergrafix Consulting
44 Macdermid Cres.
Saskatoon, Sk.
Canada S7J 2R2
SYNOPSIS
HCMAKE produces 32,768 color (HiColor) SuperVGA animations
from 15,16 and 24 bit Targa images which may be displayed with
our HCPLAY HiColor animation player.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Continued good karma to John Bridges for the enlightening
information and code contained in his VGAKIT kit package.
Trademarks like GIF(tm) and PC(tm) are held by their
respective companies.
DISCLAIMER
The HCMAKE program is provided without warranty of any
kind. The user of HCMAKE assumes complete responsibility
for any and all incidental or consequential damages which may
occur during normal or abnormal use of the HCMAKE program.
Use the HCMAKE program at your own risk.
LICENSE
The entire HCMAKE package, including the HCPLAY, HCMAKE and
HCSHOW programs, documentation and sample files are Copyright
1990,1992 Synergrafix Consulting. All rights reserved. The
unregistered shareware versions of the programs may be freely
distributed to others by any means, as long the following
(three) conditions are met:
1) HCMAKE is distributed in a "package" containing the
following files:
HCMAKE.EXE
DOS4GW.EXE
HCMAKE.DOC
HCMAKE.ME
2) HCMAKE is not distributed as part of any other
product, except with specific written permission from
the authors.
3) NO fee of any kind is charged for the HCMAKE
package or for the service of providing the package,
except Computer Bulletin Board Systems, which may
distribute the HCMAKE package even though they may
charge a membership or service fee.
You can use the "shareware" version of HCMAKE for personal,
non-commercial use for as long as you want, although your
support will directly contribute to its further development
and improvement. Commercial users, and those wishing to
produce longer animations may purchase an unrestricted
(see below) kit containing registered versions of HCMAKE,
HCPLAY and HCSHOW. Send $30.00 U.S. to:
Synergrafix Consulting
44 Macdermid Cres.
Saskatoon, Sk.
Canada S7J 2R2
and you will receive a 5 1/4" disk containing the latest
unlimited versions of HCPLAY and HCMAKE, along with the HCSHOW
bonus program.
Look for the shareware version of HCPLAY wherever you found
HCMAKE. HCPLAY will play 32,768 colour (HiColor) animations
produced with HCMAKE.
COMPULSORY ADVERTISING AND GENERAL BEGGING
The following programs are also available from Synergrafix
Consulting:
GIFEXE Make you GIF's self-displaying. Make
automatic slideshows with fades, etc.
VGA/SVGA.
GIFWARP! Warp, bend stretch your GIFs for
interesting effects.
GIFCLIP Clip/crop your GIFs, add text or your
own GIF logo or signature.
GIFSIZE Resize all or part of your GIFs. Shrink
an entire screen to the size of an icon.
(These programs are available in licensed SuperVGA versions
for $8.00 U.S. each, or get all four for $23.00 U.S. or more.
These registered versions may not be distributed to others, or
distributed with, or as part of any other product. These
programs support modes like 640x480, 800x600 with 256 colours
on 512K and 1024K SuperVGA cards from ATI, Ahead, Cirrus,
Chips and Technologies, Everex, OAK, Paradise, Trident, Tseng,
Video7, Compaq, NCR, Genoa and VESA.
REQUIREMENTS
HCMAKE currently requires the following:
- A 386 or 486 based PC
- About 2Mb of RAM
- DOS 3.0-6.0 (others untested)
(A HiColor display is not required to produce the animation
with HCMAKE, but is required to display the animation with
HCPLAY.)
INSTALLATION
Simply copy the HCMAKE program and the DOS4GW.EXE (dos
extender) to any directory that you want - perhaps somewhere
in the DOS path.
USAGE
Syntax for HCMAKE is as follows:
HCMAKE [?] infilespec[.TGA] [outfilename[.FLI]] /speed=n /pp
The options are as follows:
/speed=n This switch is used to specify the speed at
which the animation is to be played. This
value may be over-ridden when the animation is
played with HCPLAY. The default speed value is
0 (play as fast as possible).
/pp Pingpong. Make an animation with the first
half consisting of the frames displayed in
ascending order, and the second half consisting
of the same frames in descending order.
/dither Dither 24bit Targas to 16bit (HiColor) when
making the animation. This will reduce
"banding" that may appear on the HiColor screen
when smooth gradients of a single color are
present. Beware that the effect of dithering
varies greatly for different animations. Some
animations may become bigger and slower, and
look worse when dithering is used, and other
animations may be smaller, faster and look
better! Try producing your animation with and
without dithering and judge the factors
yourself.
For example, try:
C> HCMAKE ? to see the help/brag screen
C> HCMAKE anim* to make an animation from the
files "anim*.tga". The animtion
file will be named HCMAKE.FLI.
C> HCMAKE demo* demo.fli /pp /speed=10
make an animation named
"demo.fli" from the Targa images
"demo*.tga" using pingpong
sequencing and a speed of 10.
C> HCMAKE tga24*.tga ditherd.fli /dither
make an animation named
"dithered.fli" from the Targa
images "tga24*.tga", dithering
the 24bit images to 16bit.
RESTRICTIONS AND CAVEATS
Currently, HCMAKE is restricted to producing animations at
640x480 resolution.
The shareware versions of HCMAKE and HCPLAY are currently
restricted to animations of 25 or fewer frames.
THE FUTURE
We intend to make the following improvements to HCMAKE/HCPLAY.
We need your support to continue development!
- Support for additional hardware - S3 chips, ATI XL (need
info!, especially for the S3), and VESA HiColor support.
- Support for additional HiColor modes such as 800x600 etc.
- Combining other animtions into one HiColor animation, text
additions to animations etc.
- Support for new 24bit modes - Full color animations. (?)
- Addition of sound board support. (?)
- Better support for ordinary 256 color SuperVGA FLI
animations.
HISTORY
- Version 0.5b September 1, 1992
First public release.
- Version 1.0 November 1, 1992
Full input pathname now properly interpreted.
- Version 1.1 May 20, 1993
Encoding bug fixed. The rightmost pixel will no longer
wrap around to the left of the screen. Dithering
option added (enabled).