Author: Jari Komppa aka Sol/Trauma
        <mailto:solar@compart.fi>
        http://www.compart.fi/~solar

Hi there.

As I received some comments, I decided to re-work the textmode fli player
a bit. No new functionality is included (except those of the textfx2),
but the source is somewhat cleaned up and the FLI/FLC player is now
completely separated from the textmode player part.

What surprised me was the comment on Hornet that the mode setup of textfx
didn't work but on some weird tweak.. in our testing (and man, did we
waste time on this) textfx-based programs work in linux dosemu, WinNT,
Win95, Win3.1, OS/2 Warp3, and dos of course, and mostly (if not in
every case) in window as well as fullscreen.

It might be that the "useless" comment was due to the fact that who on
Earth would use a textmode fli player :)

One reason for releasing this package is to produce some resources for
people to use in textmode demos. (what? textmode demos? - check my
homepage for textmode democompo info. If I've moved, search the net,
I'm bound to be out there somewhere =)

The sources in this package might be grouped this way:

makefile - Watcom makefile

fliflc.c - The FLI/FLC player "engine". Re-entrant, output device
           independent, etc.
fliflc.h - Header file for fliflc

txtfli_o.c   - Textmode fli/flc player that rescales to the screen.
               This version uses the "old" txtfli player method of
               calculating palette and dumping the output.
               The scaling doesn't care about aspect ratio..
txtfli_n.c   - Textmode fli/flc player that rescales to the screen with
               antialiasing. This version uses "new" method by converting
               the frames to truecolor with double resolution and running
               it through textfx2:s truecolor-to-textmode conversion with
               resampling back down to 80x50.
mcgafli.c    - Done just to prove my point that fliflc can be used in
               any mode :) (actually 13h use is easier than textmode use..)
txtfli_o.lnk - Watcom linker options for txtfli_o
txtfli_n.lnk - Watcom linker options for txtfli_n
mcgafli.lnk  - Watcom linker options for mcgafli

textfx2.c - New version of my textfx.c/h routines with some experimental
            routines as well as some useful ones =).
            The calcpal routine some people have learned to love to hate
            has gone through some "slight" optimization (it now takes
            about sqrt(t) time compared to the old version). There are
            some other features added as well, so check them out..
textfx2.h - Header file for textfx2

Also included:

ottpalet.zip - "optimal" textmode target palette for renderers / animation
               compilers (such as Dave's Targa Animator).
tmdc.flc     - Example flic file.
file_id.diz  - Description In Zip file for BBS systems.

Sorry for no compiled versions but I wanted to keep the ZIP size SMALL.

Please, if you use any of those sources for anything, let me know!
And if you make improvements, throw me a copy!
Don't be a lamer - give proper credit!