We have FLI at home

Recently I’ve released na_eofdec, a tool for decoding exotic and/or obscure formats. That release included F16 format support, but recently I’ve REd another one (PC Animate Plus / 3D WorkShop animation) and there’s yet another one waiting in the queue (Reflections animation). What unites them all is that they all employ simple compression scheme and (beside F16) they all have a 3D modelling program associated with them. And I’ve REd these formats by investigating the file format, they’re that simple. F16 posed itself as “FLI but 16-bit” and it looks like its creators have failed to build an ecosystem out of it. I have encountered merely two demo samples at discmaster and nothing else. From technical point of view it’s either uncompressed intra frames or the rather familiar FLI delta compression scheme with its number of skip/run opcodes per line, just with small variations. PC Animate Plus is more interesting as it has 4-, 8- and 16-bit content compressed, at least two format versions…