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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
"Advanced" FLI
Argh, can't take this term. It's the least advanced of all FLI modes. Only 2 colors per byte, and nothing else to worry about. In multicolor FLI you also have the background color and char colors, so that is definitely more advanced.
I always called it "Hires FLI". What's wrong with that? |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
That would be ISO-scene-talk-1337 |
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Mermaid
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 335 |
HIFLI certainly seems to be a better name for the mode, and some people I knew did call it that.
The editor I had back then used the AFLI name though and it kinda just stuck, never gave it much thought...until I had to select the gfx mode when creating the entry for Super Turban Bros., and the only option I could find that resembled AFLI was "Advanced FLI". I was like "huh...advanced? Is that what the A stands for..?" :) |
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Radiant
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 639 |
Many abbreviations were invented without much thought anyway, for example IFFL. I guess people were just young and really competetive and didn't care much about accuracy... |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
It might have been some retards who came up with that term in the first place, but that's no reason to keep using it. Can't CSDb at least try to be a rolemodel and use some meaningful names for gfx formats.
Btw, I don't see why the format is even needed for pictures, since I guess it's impossible to include all possible formats anyway. What if someone make a pic in a new format and don't even come up with a fancy name for that format? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5022 |
the widely used modes should cover more than 95% of the pic releases, so I'm for using them on csdb. For the rest there can be an other category.
btw fli is a stupid term at the first case aswell. but its so deeply burnt in I dont think its possible to change it.
lemme try to come up with generalized terms:
multicolor fli
hires fli
multicolor interlaced fli
hires interlaced fli
underlayed sprites hires fli (ushf instead of ufli?:)
underlayed multicolor sprites hires fli (umshf ?:)
seems like xfli and ufli will stay too :)
hires fli is good enough instead of afli, Im using both terms.
anyway these terms were invented by wannabee teens, who only cared about the kewl sounding. |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
FLI probably was inspired by that hip-hop term "yo, that's fly" :) |
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enthusi
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 675 |
the term 'multicolor' is already misleading and probabling can be accused of generating tons of mono-color hires pictures. |
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Scout
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 1568 |
Quote: FLI probably was inspired by that hip-hop term "yo, that's fly" :)
Was it on IRC or was it in another thread where we discussed the pronouncuation of FLI? ...Don't remember...
But I (and I guess the fellow dutchies too) pronounce it as 'flee' =)
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5022 |
hehehe
we hungarians also say 'flee' :D
f l ai sux :) |
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Puterman
Account closed
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 188 |
What's wrong with you guys, too lame to read properly? :)
D'Arc of Topaz clearly states that it's "Advanged FLI". Not that the word "advanged" actually means anything, but whatever... Check out the intro for the editor, and/or his article for C=Hacking. Then we can start a new discussion on whether AFLI is more advanged that regular FLI. |
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