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From:	Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Subject:	Re: Allegro, DJGPP and large scale animation
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Bruce Ferguson wrote:
> 
>     I was curious.  Using Allegro along with DJGPP is there any
> preferred  method of performing LARGE scale animation with any of the
> formats..  I am talking like a full screen animation like a cloud scene
> or something of that nature..   I have been using just .tga or .lmp
> compressed and then grabbing those and putting them in a dat file and
> blitting the images to the screen after making like 20 pics of the same
> image with minor changes in them and using a rest(100); in between
> those.  Is there a better more preferred method that is lax on the
> memory and has a nice effect to it?   If so could someone fill me in?  I
> would be happy to hear any suggestions or comments on this and could you
> explain to me how I would go about the method you think is better should
> you have a different one...

Try playing back FLI animation files. See the allegro documentation and
example code for more details, and the allegro home page
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro for pointers on how to convert
images to FLI files..

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