I was at a SIGGRAPH meeting in San Francisco a couple of months ago where
someone from Apple was talking about a toolkit that converted from many
external datatypes over to QuickTime. They showed demos from Sun, various
PC formats, SGI, and a Cray-generated graphics image. This product is now
available through APDA (sorry I don't remember the exact title, but I
remember the cost was around $75). It apparently also contains a certain
amount of source code for doing these conversions on the host systems. I'm
certain .FLI conversion was supported, but my memory is hazy on .FLC.
Anyway… Apple is trying to push this out as part of their effort to make
QuickTime a cross-platform delivery standard…
Cheers,
Ramin.
[ P.S. I'm still waiting to hear about the PICS -> FLC variant…
Anyone… Anyone? ]
They better do something! From my perspective, at the current time there is
*NO* reason to buy a MAC over a PC. Apple has been losing ground steadily
for years now, and unless they can do something with IBM, they will be a
memory by the year 2000. Of course, Windows is still archaeic and
cumbersome and basically a graphics interface for text applications.