From: "Tom ST Denis" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: New Animation Toolkit for Allegro Lines: 18 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 05:44:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.156.37.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT home DOT net X-Trace: news3.rdc1.on.home.com 977636641 24.156.37.224 (Sat, 23 Dec 2000 21:44:01 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 21:44:01 PST Organization: Excite AT Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com FLY is an 8-bit animation toolkit that has a very simple API. It can perform various forms of compression but uses BZIP (available free off the net) as the underlying compressor. It has some cool features such as key frames, losslses coding, dithering and blocking. The blocking methods make horrible pictures but are usefull if you just don't have the space. On average an 320x200 frame is about 8kb and looks just like the original. The API includes "FLY writting" as well as reading. So you can make FLY animations really easily! www.geocities.com/tomstdenis/files/fly.zip All free! Tom