PabloPaint

PabloPaint is a paint program for Atari. Images are raster.

Identification
PA3/PPP files begin with ASCII "".

.PPP (st low resolution, app version 1.1) .PA3 (st high resolution, app version 2.5)

43 bytes   file id ["PABLO PACKED PICTURE: Groupe CDND " 0x0D 0x0A] ?          image data size in bytes stored in plain in ascii text + cr/lf 1 byte     resolution flag [0 = low, 2 = high] 1 byte     compression type [0 = uncompressed, 29 = compressed] 1 word     image data size in bytes (same value as above) 16 words   palette ?          image data

Uncompressed images are simply screen dumps as one might expect.

Software

 * RECOIL
 * Tom's Editor
 * abydos

Sample files

 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/pabloPaint/
 * http://whatis.rest7.com/how-to-open-pa3-file