FLItina V1.4 Documentation
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What is FLItina?
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FLItina  is  an  animationplayer  for  Autodesk Animator (*.FLI/*.FLC)
Files. It uses the RETINA Graphics-Board for Videooutput.


Disclaimer
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The  author  cannot  be held liable for the suitability or accuracy of
this manual and/or the program(s) it describes. Any damage directly or
indirectly  caused  by  the  use  or  misuse of this manual and/or the
program  it  describes  is the sole responsibility of the user her/him
self.

Copyright/Distribution
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FLItina,© Copyright 1993/94 by Reinhard Haslbeck. All rights reserved.
This program is SHAREWARE, see below how to register. This program may
be freely distributed as long as all documentation  and  executable(s)
remain  unchanged  and  are  included  with  the distribution. Also no
profit is to be made by selling this program. You may not charge  more
than Fred Fish does for a single library disk. Commercial distribution
is NOT allowed without written  permission  from  the  author.  It  is
allowed for non-commercial BBSs to distribute an archive with only the
following files in it to save your users some money when they want  to
download   this   program.  NOTE:  All  files  listed  below  MUST  be
distributed  together.  None  of  the  files  listed  below   may   be
distributed  on  it's  own!  They  may  ofcourse  be archived with any
archiver.

         FLItina            - Main Program
         FLItina.info       - Icon
         FLItina.doc        - Manual
         FLItina.doc.info   - Icon


How to use
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FLItina  is designed for CLI-Usage. If You start it from Workbench, no
options  are  available.  Copy  the  file  'FLItina'  to 'C:' and type
'FLItina ?'. This will display all options available:


      FILE/M,L=LOOPS/K/N,FS=FORCESPEED/K/N,R=RESOLUTION/K/N,QUIET/S:


FILE:
      Simply  the  name  of  the  *.FLI-File  you  want  to see. If no
      Filename  is  entered,  a  Filerequester  will appear. AmigaDos-
      styled pattern-matching is also supportet.

LOOPS:
      How often the animation will restart.  Disabled  in  this  unre-
      gistered version.

FORCESPEED:
      Overrides  the animspeed given by the *.FLI-file. If it's set to
      zero  the  anim  is played as fast as possible.

RESOLUTION:
      This forces FLItina to open the Retina-Screen in a custom  size.
      RESOLUTION  must  be one of these: 320, 640, 800, 1024, 1280. If
      your  choosen  resolution  is  lower  than  the  width  of   the
      Flic-File,  the  program will break with an error. The effect of
      this option isn't the same as it is in the  Picasso-version:  If
      you've  choosen  the  same Resolution as defined in your default
      8-Bit Monitor, the animation will be displayed in the middle  of
      the  Screen instead in the upper left corner. To see the anim in
      other Resolutions you have to change your default MonitorID.

QUIET:
      Skips  all  Outputs  to  Stdout and the delays at the beginning.
      Useful for scripts.

If  your  default  8-bit  MonitorID  has  a  lower resolution than the
FLC-file  requires or you've choosen by the RESOLUTION option, FLItina
returns the error 'Can't open Screen'.
This unregistered version will wait a few seconds before it starts its
work!


Requirements
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   - An Amiga Computer with a RETINA pluged in
   - Amiga OS2.04 +


Development
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This program was developed on an A3000/25 with O.M.A. 2.0.


History (for FLIcasso and FLItina)
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Changes from V1.3 to V1.4:
    - Added option 'RESOLUTION'
    - Fixed bug in FLC-Delta Decoder

Changes from V1.2 to V1.3:
    - FLC-Support

Changes from V1.1 to V1.2:
    - Pattern matching to view multiple files
    - Optimized on several parts

Changes from V1.0 to V1.1:
    - Startable from Workbench via Icon


How to register
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To get Your own, full featured version of FLItina, send

      * An empty floppydisk (880K)
      * A stamped envelope addressed to Yourself
        (non-stamped if You're no German)
      * The sharefee (10,-DM for Germans, $10 otherwise)

   TO:

            Reinhard Haslbeck
            Spirknerstr. 7
            84137 Vilsbiburg

            GERMANY


Special thanks to
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   - My brother Walter for some debug hints
   - Helmut Waege for former Retina tests
   - Hans Maurer for the aminet-distribution of the demo-versions
   - Richard Kinder for the FLC-docs


Contact the author
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Address:    Reinhard Haslbeck
            Spirknerstr. 7
            84137 Vilsbiburg
            GERMANY

Phone:      +49/(0)87418676

Internet:   haslbeck@informatik.tu-muenchen.de