Smacker SDK Features

Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP

Available as a DLL file that ships with your application. Should work fine with any Windows C/C++ compiler (including Microsoft Visual Studio 6 and .NET which we build with). Supports the Miles Sound System, DirectSound, or waveout for sound output. Can decompress directly to 8-bit or 16-bit pixel formats. The Smacker DLL is about 163 KB and is completely standalone (no other DLLs are required). At playback time, Smacker needs about 12 KB to 600 KB of tables, and a one second data rate buffer. Can open from a filename string, or a file handle. Includes a full-featured blitting and buffering API on Windows. This SmackBuffer API can use DirectDraw, DIBs, and DIBSections. Blitting is normally complicated on Windows due to the huge number of APIs - Smacker simplies this down to one simple API. Includes a low-level, extremely-fast, MMX-optimized memory to memory bliting API. Great for super-fast video sprites. Extremely fast - 640x480 can take as little as 10% of the CPU on a P3/750. Great for fast video textures!

Macintosh

Available as a Carbon shared library, a CFM shared library, a Codewarrior PPC static library, a CodeWarrior 68K static library. Should work fine with any Mac C/C++ compiler (including CodeWarrior which is what we build with). Supports the Sound Manager (and sits along side the Miles Sound System) for sound output. Can decompress directly to 8-bit pixel formats. The Smacker libraries are about 150 KB and are completely standalone (no other libraries are required). At playback time, Smacker needs about 12 KB to 600 KB of tables, and a one second data rate buffer. Can open from a filename string, or an FSSpec pointer. Includes a full-featured blitting and buffering API on MacOS. This SmackBuffer API uses QuickDraw to gain direct access to the frame buffer and provider GWorld blitting on MacOS 8 to X. This API is compatible with the Windows version, so moving Smacker playback between Windows and MacOS is painless. Includes a low-level, extremely-fast, assembly-optimized memory to memory bliting API. Great for super-fast video sprites. Extremely fast - 640x480 can take as little as 15% of the CPU on a G3/750. Great for fast video textures!

Microsoft Windows 3.x (16-bit Windows)

Available as a 16-bit DLL file that ships with your application. Smacker is still 32-bit internally, but we expose the codec as a normal 16-bit DLL. Should work fine with any Windows 16-bit C/C++ compiler (including Watcom which we build with). Supports the Miles Sound System, waveout, and Diamondware for sound output. Can decompress directly to 8-bit or 16-bit pixel formats. The Smacker DLLs are about 330 KB and are completely standalone (no other DLLs are required). At playback time, Smacker needs about 12 KB to 600 KB of tables, and a one second data rate buffer. Can open from a filename string, or a file handle. Includes a full-featured blitting and buffering API on Windows. This SmackBuffer API can use DirectDraw, DIBs, and DIBSections. Blitting is normally complicated on Windows due to the huge number of APIs - Smacker simplies this down to one simple API. Includes a low-level, extremely-fast, MMX-optimized memory to memory bliting API. Great for super-fast video sprites. Extremely fast - 640x480 can take as little as 10% of the CPU on a P3/750. Great for fast video textures!

DOS

Available as a 32-bit static library. Builds with Watcom 10.6 and 11.0 and DOS/4GW or Causeway. Supports the Miles Sound System, HMI's SOS, and MSSLite (supplied) for sound output. Can decompress directly to 8-bit or 16-bit pixel formats. Can even decompress directly to banked SVGA memory. The Smacker library is about 400 KB and is completely standalone (no other libraries are required). At playback time, Smacker needs about 12 KB to 600 KB of tables, and a one second data rate buffer. Can open from a filename string, or a file handle. Includes a complete SVGA VESA wrapper layer for 8-bit and 16-bit modes. Includes a low-level, extremely-fast, MMX-optimized memory to memory bliting API. Great for super-fast video sprites. Extremely fast - 640x480 can take as little as 10% of the CPU on a P3/750. Great for fast video textures!