I thought those were still supported by Quicktime.

there's a virtualdub plugin for them I believe

Hmmm i dont like quicktime so much on windows. And i just wanted some way to look at them on my desktop so my own player was just a convenient solution. It's not really programming artwork, especially the fullscreen feature is where you can see when i lost interest. I had some fun toying with the playback speed control for a while.

Imma start a collection of classic fli/flc files, does anyone have some to contribute? Anything welcome!

fronzel wrote:

Hmmm i dont like quicktime so much on windows.

Neither do I. I suggest "Quicktime Alternative", a much less invasive installer for the necessary codecs.

I think the first time I encountered FLICs I used a versatile DOS image viewer called "DISPLAY", which I imagine ought to run in DOSBox.

Thanks for the tip with Quicktime alternative, really really good. Finally .mov files without the annoying quicktime software (Well annoying as in "Annoying on windows, not on OSX").

The first time i encountered FLIC movies was somewhere in the early 90s, actually before i bought a lightning fast 486 DLC 33. I still remember how i originally thought FLIC was "Totally awesome" and then later laughed about it when i played MPEG videos fullscreen in DOS on my 486.

My windows FLIC player is not so serious, actually just a "quick and dirty" solution of a bored saturday evening, i just wanted to comfortably preview flic movies on my win XP machine.

Nice work. There are other FLI/FLC players for Windows, though... google AAWin or WAAPlay.

what I'd REALLY like to know is if there's any modern software that matches Autodesk Animator's features. It was hands-down the best graphics editor and animation suite in the DOS era, like Photoshop and Flash rolled into one (with the best handling of 8-bit paletted color, too).

super pissed at myself for not keeping all the .FLI stuff I created with AA / AAPro back in the day...

Ah i must admit i didnt know about other players. I thought i could get some codec or so to have it work with VLC or win media player but no way, so it was just a drunk idea to make my own one. I based it on some simple source i found somewhere but it didnt have a loop function which pissed me off as some of my old flc/fli were just like 2 seconds or so.

Relly pitty you dont have your old fli/flc files any more. If you find anything let me know, i wanna build an online shrine with vintage fli/flc anis. I sure miss the good old days! 😉

That brings back memories. 😎

Animator Pro was used to create FLCs.

DosboxFan wrote:

If you want to make some new Flc's you might like to know that Autodesk's Animator Pro does work in dosbox on a Windows 7 x64bit Dell laptop.

I don't know where you might find Animator Pro though.

J

I used Videomach

http://gromada.com/videomach/

The free version leaves watermarks though, but if you have the pro version or so its a really nice solution for XP users as it really converts every popular video format and also offers basic cutting features and such.