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NAME
dl - format of DL animation files
DESCRIPTION
DL files (with suffix .dl) contain bitmapped images, a color
map, and a set of commands to animate the images. DL files are
not that predominant (I have only a very few). There is little
official documentation that I have found. This file is merely
an attempt to document the file format.
There are (at least) 2 versions of DL files: version 1 and 2.
DL version 1 file format is:
Size
(bytes) Description
-----------------------------------------------------------
1 Version number (1). Image format (implicit)
is 1 (medium)
20 Title (XOR'ed with 0xff).
1 Number of screens (nscr).
1 Number of commands (ncmd).
1 Unknown. Something to do with colormap and
border colors.
768 Colormap (3 bytes per color, 256 colors)
320*200*nscr Data for each screen (always 64000 bytes).
ncmd Commands in an unknown format. The last
command can be negative (unknown reason) and
is to be ignored.
DL version 2 file format is:
Size
(bytes) Description
-----------------------------------------------------------
1 Version number (2).
1 Format (0=large320x200, 1=medium160x100).
20 Title (XOR'ed with 0xff).
20 Author (XOR'ed with 0xff).
1 Number of screens (nscr).
1 Number of commands (ncmd).
3 Unknown. Something to do with colormap and
border colors.
768 Colormap (3 bytes per color, 256 colors).
320*200*nscr Data for each screen (if format==0, single
image per screen, if format==1, 4 images
per screen)
2*ncmd Commands, little-endian (byte swapped 16-bit
words). The last command can be negative
(unknown reason) and is to be ignored.
Commands appear to be just a list of frames to display in a
loop. For example, given four frame images (0 through 3), the
commands:
0 1 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 1 2 1 2 1
can create an animation showing these frames in succession. You
can thus have far fewer actual bitmap images that "frames" in
the animation loop.
AUTHOR
Bill Rosenkranz <rosenkra@convex.com> based on xdl program by
Jonas Yngvesson <jonas-y@isy.liu.se> for the X Windows xdl.