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- The enclosed ShowANIM ver 4.30 has two major additions:
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- 1 - It will display ANIMs which are spread across multiple files. To do
- this, simply list the files in sequence. ShowANIM will append the second
- and subsequent files, ignoring the first two frames. It assumes that
- the first two frames match the last two frames that already exist
- in memory. This will permit the generation of large ANIMs by generating
- them piecewise on separate floppies. Then, provided you have sufficient
- memory, they can be appended together and played as a unit. Each file is,
- incidently, a valid ANIM in it's own right, allowing you to view any
- segment separately, or edit it or re-generate it (so long as you maintain
- the end frame pairs for matching with other ANIM files).
-
- 2 - ShowANIM now maintains a master color map and updates it whenever it finds
- a CMAP chunk with a frame. This permits varying color palette across
- an animation.
-
- ... Gary Bonham, SPARTA Inc., 21 March 1988 ...
-