 PowerFliC 32bit, revision history
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 - 1.72    *Very small bug-fix, when the "Stay on top" checkbox was
            marked, it only affected the stay on top of the image window
            over the interface window, and not ALL the windows out there...
            This should now work.

           *I got rid of the word doc file for a standard text file because
            my wordpad program decided it doesnt like to save to a ".doc" file
            anymore. (Another great Micro$oft product).

           *While passing over the new text-file documentation, i did correct some
            info on the command line example (it simply wasn't 100% working).

           *My DragonFire home page mirror is now off, they started requesting
            money for the page hosting, and frankly i can't afford it.
            So my only page is now on geocities.

            However, the nice guys at www.ml.org have allowed me (or anyone else)
            to create a redirector to my home page, so you can now reach my page
            through it's own domain at: "http://bez.home.ml.org", very cool.

            If you know of a place where i can have at least 5-10 mb of disk space
            to host my page without paying any monthly fees, please let me know.

 - 1.71    *Although this is just a minor version, a lot of internal
            source clean-up was done, with this in mind, let me know if
            any new bugs popped up.

           *Added a new command line parameter, use "/HIDEMENU" to
            hide the powerflic interface menu. Although not really
            needed, you should probably do a "/SHOWMENU" at the
            end.

            Example : "powerflc /hidemenu /play hello.flc /showmenu"
            or      : "powerflc /hidemenu /playfile hello.flc /close"

           *When playing several flics at a sequence from the command line
            the transition between the flics should now be smoother.

           *PowerFliC now tries to conform better to NT 4.0 specifications.
            I didn't see any difference in playback here, but others might.

           *The powerflc.cfg file should now be more reliable (hopefully).
            One of these days i'll just write it to the registery, but
            corrently im too lazy.

           *Fixed disappearence bug where the Powerflic menu just didn't
            appear.  If this still happens, just delete the powerflc.cfg
            file, and the problem will get solved.

 - 1.70    *You can now play a wave file (.WAV) in sync with the flic.
            You must specify the wave file name BEFORE using one of the
            play command lines.  The wave file will only play for the
            next played flic file.

            Example : "powerflc /wavfile hithere.wav /play hello.flc /close"

            If the flic is looping, the wave file may get cut, since it will
            be restarted when the flics loops.

           *Now the /WinMax parameter actually works :)


 - 1.62    *When trying to press the "P" button to play instead of the play
            button, PowerFliC crashed.

           *Fixed the error when trying to use the /TitleON or /TitleOFF
            command lines.

           *Added another command line parameter called /BigReadON
            It changes the way PowerFliC reads the flic from hard disk,
            it takes about 100-400k more memory (depanding on resolution),
            it only works when playing from hard disk.  It MIGHT be faster,
            but im not really sure.  It is by default OFF.

 - 1.61    *Eeek, a really bad resource leak problem fixed!

 - 1.60    *Check out my ALL-New home page!, it holds information on
            3D-Design and Rendering, it shows some of my rendering work.
            And ofcourse, it holds link to PowerFliC, so you'll always
            know where to get the latest version from.

            Check the page out at:
            http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/6601/index.html

            If you have a 3D related page of your own, let me know, and             
            i'll add a link.

           *Yes, it appears i missed yet another thing, delay frames.
            When there was NO difference between frames, it should have
            been a delay frame, but i just skipped it.  Oh well, this is
            now fixed, and the player waits the frame out.

           *Another buggy (?) encoder problem overcome, it appears that
            some flic encoder leaves trash after certain frames, expecting
            the decoder to ignore file position and follow header information
            blindly.  Well, i didn't make PowerFliC follow blindly, but i did
            add a small check for this annoyence, so there will be NO slow downs
            by disk seeks trying to reposition on correctly encoded flic files.

           *Now when loop is disabled, the ring frame is not decoded so that
            the last and not the first frame in the flic will remain on screen.
            
           *Fixed a bug that caused the play from file button not to work
            if used more than once.

           *You can now play Read-Only files.  Don't you just hate
            those stupid system fuck-ups?

           *Very minor cosmetic fix-ups.

           *Improved decoding speed by about half a precent.  Decoding 
            speed is about 1030fps at 320x240 on a P5/100mhz (decoding
            alone, without the display).

           *Added a rant and rave section to the docs, discussing some
            of the benifits of the different animation formats.

 - 1.51    *Check out the new K-Rad 256 color icon! (it only appears
            in the program when in High color modes, but you can view
            the powericn.gif if your vga does not support such modes).
 
           *It seems i didn't check the new play from file methud enough.
            It had some bugs when trying to use it from the command line.

           *A few other command line glitches were fixed.


 - 1.50    *Although the interface looks exactly the same as v1.40, the
            meaning of the Play from File button has changed!.  With this
            button, you now select a file to be played, and it is only
            played when you press the PLAY button.  When the flic playback
            is complete, the play button is remained enabled and you can
            press it again to play the same file from disk.

           *New information "Status" under the information page (Alt-I).
            The status can contain three things:
            1. In memory      = A Flic is currently loaded in memory.
            2. File Selected  = A flic file was selected using the
                                file play option.
            3. None           = Means that there is no flic in memory
                                or file selected to be played.            

           *Now pressing the Close button in the IMAGE window fixes the
            image window to one forth the size of the screen.

           *New key "Alt-Enter" this key will Go to full-screen
            stretch mode.  Pressing it again will restore the
            window size to the size defined in the Flic header.

           *You can now always exit using the quit button, even during
            flic playback.

           *Now when you move a window on top of a stopped flic, and
            move it off, the bitmap is not erased.  Not really important
            but what a little more attractive.

 - 1.40    *256 color playback now maps unsupported colors to the nearest
            colors in the palette, no more black areas where pixels were
            lost to the 20 system palette.

 - 1.30    *Playback speed improvement!, playing is 30%-50%
            faster now.  PowerFliC was timed playing a full motion
            800x600 full screen flic at 28 frames per second
            on a P5/100mhz.

            This improvement is due to faster screen writes, 
            PowerFliC has an ASM32 Optimized decoder, so the
            decoding was always fast.  Another thing, the screen
            writes are still the bottleneck.  PowerFliC could be
            even faster (Maybe when i get some good Direct-X docs
            it will get even faster).

           *Added a new key "CTRL-+" (Control Plus), this key will
            restore playback speed to it's predefined original state.

           *Added a new key "CTRL--" (Control Minus), this key will
            move the speed bar to the Max (0) position for maximum
            playback speedrates.

           *Now pressing "ALT-X" will exit PowerFliC,
            even during playback.

           *Fixed a bug that caused a "Divide by zero" error
            when playing flics when the speed was set to 0.

           *Improved display of FPS (under statistics) when dealing with
            VERY high speed playback (at 100fps).

           *Small DOC size (reduced image to 16 colors :)

 - 1.20    *It appears that without a special command, windows timing
            accuracy is bad.  So there was a +/- 12ms inaccuracy
            in play timing.  Fixed (Now 1ms accuracy).

           *Ouch, it appears that some flic encoders (Animator PRO)
            write wrong frame size for uncompressed frames!
            This caused PowerFliC to crash with an "I/O 87" error.

           *Another bug related to uncompressed frames was fixed, it
            was causing unreliable playback on flics with uncompressed
            frames that may cause the player to crash.

           *Added tiny arrows to the left and right of the bars
            for accurate moving.

           *A new playing statistic page was added (ALT-S).

           *A new information page was added (ALT-I).


 - 1.10    *Changed name from "Flic Player 32bit" to 
            "PowerFliC 32bit", sounds better.

           *It appears that some sort of encoder seems to save
            the ring frame of FLI/FLC files as 0 chunks.  
            This caused a "Read beyond end of file" error.
            PowerFliC now plays these files smoothly 
            (not like some other flic players).

           *When PowerFliC is passed an invalid or non-existant
            flic file, it now informs you of the problem instead
            of ignoring it.

           *Added a new key "ALT-X" to exit PowerFliC
            (Only works when there is no flic playing).

           *PowerFliC now correctly writes it's configuration
            file in the directory the exe file is located,
            and NOT the directory it was run at.

           *New "About" window created to reflect name change.

           *PowerFliC is now available on Tucows (http://www.tucows.com) 
            and all it's mirrors.
            If you're having problems connecting to tucows, try one of
            it's mirrors at "http://www.env.com".

 - 1.00     Flic Player 32bit First Release.
