Bad Apple as FLI (Autodesk Animator) file.

[ahenry3068]

I've already done the ffmpeg frame trick. Busy trying to find a program that will make the FRAMES into an FLI file.

Be interesting to see how well it's encodes as a FLI.

(I've been busy brushing up on C in prepartion for writing FLIPLAY

[ahenry3068]

I am interested to see how well it Plays as an FLI with optimized code.
It would be almost double the resolution of your code : )

Really what I'm going for is a general purpose FLI player.
But your Apple.PRG gives me a really good baseline
for what I might accomplish.

[ahenry3068]

The FLI specification can only encode only Changes between frames.
While observing Badapple I think that can work greatly to the advantage of
a FLI player. I still haven't got code to encode it.

I have a copy of Autodesk Animator, but it won't run on DOS BOX.

I recently acquired a system I'm going to install FREEDOS on but I
got the system sans HDD. I've ordered a New(OLD STOCK) 360 gb
IDE HDD for it. and 1 additional GB of RAM (its currently 512 mb)
(The computer I got is a 3.2 ghz P4 (single core) it was on the cusp of
SATA and IDE.... It has IDE. It also take DDR Ram (not DDR2,DDR3 or DDR4)
(the RAM is a pity as I have 8gb of DDR4 sitting in a drawer unused)

ffmpeg got the frames out quite well, but I need to turn them into a FLI

[ahenry3068]

Well I have an extremely contrived solution until I get the Hard Drive for the Old P4 I picked up and see
if I can get autodesk animator running under FreeDOS. I'm waiting for a USB Floppy to make the disk.imgs
for Autodesk Animator, Then the P4 has an A: drive (hope it works)..

For now I've got an Atari ST program that transforms a list of GIF'S into an FLI and I've install hatari on linux
just to run it... I can't believe I haven't found another tool in windows or linux to generate FLI files
though VLC plays them just fine.


AND I got ffmpeg to output a directory full on PNG's but when I tried GIF it went and generated an animated GIF..
Hope I don't have to convert >3000 png files to GIF one by one.

[desertfish]

if ffmpeg insists on making a movie from your separate frame files, consider using something like "convert" from the ImageMagick tools instead.

[ahenry3068]

I found a tool called xnconvert that does the job ok..

The Atari gif2fli program I haven't got to work properly yet. Guess
I'm going to have to wait, until I get all the stuff I still need to make 3.5 floppy disks and get my
FreeDOS system complete. I've got a copy of Autodesk Animator, just can't install
it yet.

[ahenry3068]

When I do get the FLI player written I've got to have a BadApple.FLI

[ahenry3068]

In my research I did stumble onto a source code archive for an Old Unix/Linux fli player called xanim.

Nobody seems to have a current binary archive. And make fails on the source code. (Looking for an Xos.h
that I can't seem to find even though I did install the X headers it asked for. Probably a versioning problem,
the code is quite old.) It's not a complete bust though. It has a fli.h & fli.c file that are probably
80% of what I need to start this project on CC65

CORRECTION TO MY EARLIER POST. THEIR ARE BINARY DEBS OF XANIM BUT NONE FOR X64

[ahenry3068]

Did an experiment. Found the full badapple on Youtube and extracted a .WAV file using ffmpeg.

Loaded two instances of the emulator. Copied the .WAV file to the STREAM-WAV directory.

Loaded APPLE.PRG in the other instance. Did my best to start both at the same time.

The timing is actually good. Ended within .5 seconds of each other.

[ahenry3068]

I did make the promise to finish all my desired features in LIFE.BAS
& HANGMAN.BAS before I start the FLI Player project.

Made good progress on LIFE.BAS today.