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Flic palette

    16-Aug-94 11:04:37
Sb: #118411-Flic palette
Fm: Brian Rudolph [Adesk] 71722,170
To: Ignacio 100115,3133
Ignacio, I think you are interpreting that paragraph wrong. << Only use flic drivers intended for running 8-bit flic files with 8-bit (256 color) flics.>> Here we say that Autodesk recommends only using the Vibrant selections that are 256 colors for FLIC playback. <<In some cases, it's possible to configure VIBCFG to run a flic with many than 256 colors, depending on the display board you are and the driver you select.>> This is poor wording. What is being said is that with some video drivers you can play a Flic file (still only 256 colors) when your Vibrant driver is configured so that you are using a video _driver_ that supports more than 256 colors. I can see how you would get confused. However, the intent here is to warn about selecting a wrong driver, NOT to tell people there are FLIC files with more than 256 colors. Sorry for the confusion. -Brian