flXplayer v1.01 by Thaco (c) EPOS, March 1993 -- DOCUMENTATION -- -INTRODUCTION: flXplay is a program that plays animations (sequences of pictures) stored in FLI and FLC format. flXplay is based upon the FliPlay program made by myself last year, which again was based upon the FLIPLAY package by Jim Kent. -USAGE OF FLXPLAY: To play an animation, type FLXPLAY from the DOS prompt. There are also several command line options to choose from. These options are: -? : Display information about the flXplay program -c : Do not check CPU type before playing flX -d : Do not use XMS for storing the file into memory before playing it -hC : Turn on the header that displays information about time delay and frame number. Set C = 't' for displaying header on top and 'b' for bottom (default is bottom) -i : Display information about the flX file -mX : Allows playing the flX X times before returning to DOS -n : Turns off the default MCGA (320x200x256 colors) checking (Even though my video-check routine should work for all kinds of VGA/ MCGA cards, I can not guarantee it) -p : Pause between each picture in the animation -s : Do not check for flX file size (320x200x256) -tN : Sets the time delay between each frame to N milliseconds. (The real-time clock is redefined to measure the delay so do not expect it to be too accurate) If you type FLXPLAY without any filename or options you will get a brief list of the options. While playing an animation you can use the following keys: + : Increase time delay by one millisecond (hold key to get 2^n increase) - : Decrease time delay by one millisecond (hold key to get 2^n decrease) h : Toggle header on/off i : Get information abouth the flX file p : Toggle pause on/off : Abort playing flX : Halt animation. Press to continue. While the animation is paused all the keys above are available, along with: b : Go back one frame in the animation. -FLI & FLC FORMAT: See the included file FLXSPEC.TXT for full description of the FLI, FLC and other file formats used by Autodesk Animator Pro. -CREDIT GOES TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: Jim Kent at Dancing Flame for publishing the great package FLIPLAY. Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu) for publishing the INTERRUPT LIST. Ophir Prusak (s1369046@technion02.technion.ac.il) for making me do the FliPlay program in the first place. Mike Haaland (mike@htsmm1.las-vegas.nv.us) for giving me the full specification of the FLC format. Lee Hamel (hamell@cs.pdx.edu) for being so kind as to spellcheck the text in flXplay and this document. A very special greeting goes to the á-testers: Ophir 'Pru2' Prusak (s1369046@technion02.technion.ac.il) Oyvind 'Plys' Bratland (oyvind.bratland@ban.aid.no) Lars 'Rubber' Ekhougen (laekh@hpx11.aid.no) Even 'Eveso' Solberg (eveso@hpx11.aid.no) Robert 'Buuud' Schmidt (robert@solan.unit.no) Lee 'Patch' Hamel (hamell@cs.pdx.edu) James Zack (JAMES@chr.ucla.edu) -POSTWARE: This program is published under the PostWare policy. This means if you like the program or find it useful, you should (in order to save your reputation) send the author a postcard! If you would like the full source code (which is abouth 750 lines of Turbo Pascal v7.0 and 2000 lines of Assembly), you must send me a postcard explaining why YOU want the source code. :-) Postcards marked FLXPLAY should be sent to: Eirik Milch Pedersen Stp. 153 7034 TRONDHEIM - NTH NORWAY -DISCLAIMER: In no event will the author (me) be liable to the user (you) for any damages, including any lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program, or for any claim by any other party. -OTHER GREAT FLI & FLC PRODUCTS FROM EPOS: FliPlay v1.1 - A program that play FLIs from the DOS prompt - Supports XMS to store the whole FLI into memory - Published as PostWare (all this at the price of a postcard!) Fli2Exe v1.03 - A program that makes your FLI into an .EXE file - Supports XMS optionally - Published as PostWare (all this at the price of a postcard!) Soon to come: flX2exe - A program just like Fli2Exe but which also handles FLC files - Less buggy than the original Fli2Exe! - Published as PostWare (all this at the price of a postcard!) If you have any questions/ideas/sugestions/requests for this program or for other flX products you would like to have, please feel free to send me email at thaco@solan.unit.no, or snail mail. Trondheim 28/3-92 Eirik Milch Pedersen