GTE Vantage animation
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- Company: GTE Vantage Inc.
- Extension: gav
- Game: NCAA Championship Basketball (at least game demo)
This is a simple format with independently RLE-compressed frames (animations are even accompanied by auxiliary index files with frame positions to enable easy seeking).
Header:
4 bytes - "GAV " 4 bytes - number of frames 2 bytes - frames per second 2 bytes - width 2 bytes - height 1 byte - local palette is in use 1 byte - padding 768 bytes - VGA palette
Frames start with 32-bit size, 768-byte VGA palette (unless the header signals global palette use only) and RLE data.
RLE scheme is simple: opcode 00 means end of stream, 01..7F means copying next 1..127 bytes, 80..FF means repeat the following byte 0-127 times.