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Developer's Notes for the F16 version 1.00 
This README file documents tips, bugs, and notes concerning the F16 utilities
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New Product Introduction:
The "F16" animation player represents the next generation animation player
to succeed Autodesk's "FLC" file format. F16 allows you to playback 15 and 16
bit Hi-color animations in realtime. To run the player, you need a Hi-Color
VESA driver and lots of extended memory. Run F16DIAG.EXE to see if your
system meets all the software/hardware requirements to run F16. Two sample
animations are provided. Enjoy...

01/11/93 - CD ROM AND FLOPPY DISK DEMO RELEASED -
Notes:
-A CD ROM version of the demo is available for $30.00. The CD contains
 several hundred magebytes of sample F16 animations in both 15 and 16 bit.
 See the "About" dialog in F16.EXE for order info!

-Please use the BBS to upload YOUR vesa driver to add to our collection!!!

-We want to hear from you. Dial in and check out our hot new animations, new
 product revisions and new product information on our BBS @(602) 956-5959
 Technical support questions can uploaded for review.

-Builder and Player are strictly 32 bit assembly language and highly optimized.
 
-Real mode builder and player limited flic size of 16mb when being played
 from extended memory.

-Some VESA driver incorrectly report the mode bits per pixel. If the colors
 in the animations are wrong, try choosing the wrong bits per pixel to
 overide the vesa driver.

-F16 animations are built using either 15 or 16 bit per pixel for the image
 data. Make sure you play files from the correct subdirectory based on your
 vesa drivers capabilities. Some Hi-color vesa drivers support both 15 and
 16 bit modes. Others only support one or the other.

-Older vesa drivers like Tseng's TLIVESA.COM does not support Hi-color modes.
 If you your boards chipset you can typical use some elses chipset compatible
 driver. For example, Genoa's VESA79.COM works on most boards with the Tseng
 chipset and sierra Hi-color RAM DAC.

-If you mouse is limited to the top half of the screen when running F16, make
 sure you are running Microsoft's Mouse 8.0 or higher, or a mouse driver that
 is 8.0+ compatible. Most older drivers don't seem to want to work in 80x50.

-Use F16DIAG.EXE to verify your systems compatbility with the F16 software.

-When running the self running demos DEMO32K.BAT and DEMO64k.BAT, you need
 about 15.4 megs of extended memory free to run the whole thing. If you
 don't have enough memory, you can edit the batch files and remove the
 animations that you dont have enough RAM to run. You can always use F16.EXE
 to view individual animations. It works similar to Autodesk's ANIPLAY.EXE

-A bug in the players bank selecting code causes animations played on certain
 rows to skip a bank an cause severe ugliness. It is being removed.

-F16 Builder/Player 1.00 includes:
     1. F16DIAG.EXE - Hardware/Software diagnosis
     2. F16    .EXE - Real mode animation builder and player (Visual_GUI)
     3. F16CL  .EXE - Real mode command line driven player
     4. SHOW16 .EXE - 16 bit Targa image viewer
     5. F16CONV.EXE - Converts between 15/16 per pixel and splits back to TGAs
     6. F16HDR .EXE - Displays F16 file header information

-F16 version 1.10 will also include:
     7. F16P   .EXE - 32 bit Extended DOS Protected Mode version will 4 Gig max flic size
     8. F16IPAS.??? - 3D Studio IPAS module to integrate F16 into 3DS
     9. F16W32 .EXE - Windows NT (or Win32) flat model player
    10. F16OS2 .EXE - OS/2 2.1 flat model player



01/12/93
-Bank selecting bug removed. VESA bank selecting works 100% accurately.


