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Originally Posted by Snarky
Palettes can be useful, though, exactly for palette cycling..
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Ah, happy memories! My first job included graphics for the 286, and palette cycling was the best thing ever. Even with today's powerful machines it can still sometimes be smoother than loading hundreds of full screen frames. In particular, if you run from CD ROM, even a 52 speed player may have noticeable seek times, especially if the machine is multitasking. But palette cycling has almost zero impact on the system.
I used to pallet cycle with animations created with Animator Pro (the world's all-time greatest software) and it was wonderful. Seeing a high resolution full screen image do weird and wonderful things at ridiculous frame rates on a low spec machine, well it was just decadent.
Incidentally, I recently converted some of my 640 x 480 Animator flics into AVI format. They ran full screen, perfectly smoothly, on a 386. Now, using a 1.7 Gig box they have to run at half size and are full of ugly AVI artefacts. Sometimes the old technology is still the best.
