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- !Help file of QuickFliC 0.78 (1-Oct-1993)
-
- The format of FLI and FLIC films is (often) 320*200 at 256 colours. This
- program tries to play these films on an Archimedes. Mode 15 gives good
- results, but other modes are allowed. In multisyncmodes, screenupdate gets
- rather slow (even on ARM3 machines).
-
- Dubble click a FLI(C)-file icon (filetype FLIC, &189) and the player window
- appears with the movie in it. Below the film are some buttons with these
- functions:
-
- - 1: Stop film and display Frame 1.
- - <: Stop film and display previous frame weer.
- This functions takes a lot of time due to the FLI(C)-file format.
- - >: Stop film and display next frame (autorepeat).
- - >>: Start film.
- - ||: Toggle between film and frame mode.
-
- The status bar shows the number of the current frame. The player speed
- dependends on the delay value specified in the FLI(C) file.
-
- Known problems:
- - Some PC colours don't have an ARC-equivalent. Can't do much about that.
-
- Restriction:
-
- - The maximum frame number in the FLI(C)-film is 800!
- - The resolution of the FLIC-film can't be more than 320*200. (only FLIC, FLI
- is always 320*200)
-
- Several improvements can be made to this program, I leave this to the real
- experts.
-
-
- Updates:
- 0.71 Dragging a film icon to the iconbar or the window can no longer crash
- the program.
- 0.72 Tidied up memory manegement. Wimpslot size now depends on FLI(C)-file
- length. 400 frames allowed. Pressing menu over the player window shows
- info on the current FLI(C)-film.
- 0.73 Starting QuickFLI with no film caused fatal errors when pressing the
- "1" or ">" icons.
- 0.74 Some speedup by replacing SYS "blahblah" by SYS blah%.
- Memory shortage gives "normal" error-window.
- The current player window disappears because too much new film data has
- overwritten the old film by then.
- Addes frames/second info to info-window.
- Speedbug removed, didn't you notice?
- Screenupdate improved by handling Redraw-operations ourselves.
- Thanks Dirk-Willem for this!
- (The whole window gets rebuild on each frame, often this is not necesarry!).
- 0.75 The FLIC-formaat in 320*200 resolution is now supported.
- This format is often used in MS-Windows.
- (16 bit in stead of 8 bit compression,
- colour entries of [0...255] in stead of [0...63]).
- Filetype of FLI(C) files is now &189.
- Sorry for the very full icon.
- 0.76 Original FLI-icon stolen from PC (VGA+ only).
- Frame by frame play backwards implemented eventually.
- 0.77 Finally found some time to improve screenupdate speed. Just the changed
- rectangle gets updated on each new frame. This is just for "fli_lc"
- frames of FLI-films, which most frames are. Often a FLI-film contains a
- colour table, a "fli_brun" frame then just "fli_lc" frames.
- The program runs at full speed in 8 bpp Multisync modes to keep a
- reasonable film speed.
- Length of file shown in Mbytes or Kbytes now.
- 0.78 Whoops! Play back failed a bit.
- 800 Frames maximum.
-
- Léon Neelen
-