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ZX-Animator, Windows, 0.1

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ZX-Animator - Packer for Windows and player for ZX Spectrum Computers

A SCR packer to play similar full screen images as animation

Not very friendly. this can only relevant if changes between frames are minimal.
This is just a crude delta compression. See example, 12 frames of animation reduced to 10kb (normally takes ~80kb) and updates up to 50 fps.
installation:

  1. extract the zip into some nice folder
  2. download pasmo and put pasmo into same nice folder
    done.

usage:

  1. draw your screens in zx spectrum SCR format.
  2. open Windows program zx-animator (there is a windows binary release in zip file)
  3. select and load your screens to zxanimator, and arrange them so they are in order.
  4. set delay, default is 5 (50/5=10 fps per second)
  5. press pack. a .zxa file will be generated at the root of zx-animator folder.
  6. put this zxa file next to zxanimator.asm (rename your zxa file to 01.zxa)
  7. Go download pasmo, an opensource zx spectrum assembler https://pasmo.speccy.org/
  8. open a dos (terminal) window and type: pasmo -v --tapbas zxa-animator128.asm animation_out.tap
  9. test the resulting tap file.

; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

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