GRASP GL

GRASP GL, or GRASP animation, is an animated graphics format associated with the GRASP (Graphical System for Presentation; later Graphics Animation System for Professionals) player software for DOS. It was created by John Bridges, who also created the PIC image format used in PC Paint.

Format details
A GRASP GL file is structured as a simple container format. It contains embedded files in various formats, such as PCPaint PIC, CLP, GRASP font, and apparently GIF. One of the files is a .txt file, containing a script that controls the animation.

Related formats

 * Amiga GL - variant
 * GRASP font

Software

 * GRASP 1.10c
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/garbo/PC/ANIMATIN/ - MS-DOS software (refer to the index)
 * can extract the embedded files

Sample files

 * http://cd.textfiles.com/vgaspectrum/animate/gl/
 * adgl.arj, spaceygl.arj
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/garbo/PC/ANIMATIN/ (refer to the index)
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/grasp/ → *.GL

Resources

 * Graphics Animation System for Professionals
 * , from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
 * Another document describing the .GL file format
 * Official(?) documentation here (mirror here and here)