Instructions for the IFLI viewers loadable from this site

1. IFLI-diashow

This is the program that comes with the GoDot full version disks (available from 
this site). It is a PAL viewer for Funpaint II images. Those are recognized 
automatically by the leading double up arrow in their filenames. You just insert a 
disk containing FP II files and RUN the program. It will then retrieve all 
suitable files, load and display them, and finally prompt you for a further disk.

The STOP key is useful if you want to skip an image whilst loading. STOP at the 
final prompt will end the program. You start loading the next image by pressing 
the SPACE bar when one image is currently displayed. 

There are some nifty nice particulars of how to start the program. If you add one, 
some, or all of the three following parameters to the LOAD command the program 
will act like a slideshow:

LOAD "IFLI*",8:"u=8,9 w=10 l=1"

Where U means "unit", W means "wait", and L means "loop". The above command line 
leads to the following behavior of the viewer: It starts retrieving FPII images on 
drive #8 (though it may have been loaded from drive 10 itself), will show each 
image found there for 10 seconds without further ado, will then change drives to 
#9 and also display all FP II's from there. After that it will return to drive #8 
again and continue (you could have changed the disk in the meantime). Since LOOP 
is set to 1, this will continue endlessly (good for store window presentations 
from two 1581 drives). You stop the slideshow by removing the disk from the 
current drive, and pressing STOP at the error message that will be displayed then. 
The U parameter can have up to four sequence numbers like eg "u=8,9,10,11" or also 
"u=10,9,8,11" or even "u=8,9,8,9". The STOP key works like mentioned earlier.

The program does *not* apply for accelerated systems, so switch off your SCPU or 
trigger your emulator down to 100%.

2. diashow(eng)

This is the *same* program as above but with English messages.

3. ntscifli

This program is published here courtesy Todd Elliott and may be renamed to "NTSC 
IFLI viewer". It is nothing more than a viewer without any function to LOAD an 
image, or to even access a drive from within the program. If you have a JiffyDOS 
equipped machine you act as follows:

After loading the viewer, display the directory using "@$" from the BASIC prompt. 
Cursor to the name of the wanted image and type a "%" to the first position of 
that line (where the number of blocks is; you needn't erase that number), and 
press the RETURN key. The image now gets loaded to its proper memory location. 
When ready you just RUN the viewer (or - if you typed NEW for any reason - you 
start it by SYS 2061).

If you have no JiffyDOS you LOAD the directory, print it out (so you know the 
correct names of the images), and then LOAD the viewer. Then you load the images 
you want to see to their *absolute* memory address (adding ",8,1" to the LOAD 
command), and start the viewer by "SYS 2061". 

Pressing SPACE will bring you back to BASIC for the next picture to LOAD.

"NTSC IFLI Viewer" is prepared for use with a SuperCPU. You needn't deal with 
the device's switches to slow it down or care for anything else, the program 
*knows* about your SuperCPU.

Note that compressed Funpaint images require a REU to be attached to your system, 
otherwise the image doesn't display correctly. In fact, all IFLI images from this 
site *are* compressed.

Have fun.

Arndt