"Mark's scenes are actually Amiga IFF / ILBM files, originally created with Deluxe Paint in DOS. Ah, those were the days! So, to make this work, I had to write a converter program which parses the files and extracts the pixels, the palette colors, and all the cycling information, and writes it out as something JavaScript can understand"

Immediate flash back to Atari ST gaming, marvelling at the 'animation'. This is exactly the kind of pointless activity there should be more of!