MegaPaint BLD

MegaPaint BLD is the main native raster graphics format of MegaPaint, a graphics editor developed by TommySoftware. There were editions of MegaPaint for Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Windows. Some were released as shareware. The best information about MegaPaint might be in German.

In addition to raster graphics, MegaPaint apparently has some sort of support for vector graphics.

Related formats
Other MegaPaint formats include:
 * .PAT - MegaPaint pattern
 * .VEK - MegaPaint vector format
 * .LIB - MegaPaint symbols library
 * .VLB - MegaPaint vector symbols library
 * .FNT - MegaPaint font

Format details
BLD format:

Decompression algorithm
Read the next byte, follow the instructions below, repeat.

Software

 * XnView
 * Konvertor
 * RECOIL
 * Farbfeld Utilities
 * Rest7 Online Converter
 * MegaPaint
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/pslmonthly25/words/dos/gr_draw/megapnt.exe - MegaPaint PC Version 1.10; English; shareware
 * Weird Science Clip Art CD → UTILITY/PC/MEGAPANT/ - Another copy of PC v1.10
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/crawlycrypt2/crm_demo/megapait/ - MegaPaint Professional Demo v3.00; Atari ST; German
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari1/picmanip/pic_m2r/mpntdemo/ - MegaPaint Professional Demo 4.00; Atari ST; English
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari1/picmanip/pic_m2r/mpntdemo/ - MegaPaint Professional Demo 4.00; Atari ST; English

Sample files

 * http://cd.textfiles.com/pslmonthly25/words/dos/gr_draw/megapnt.exe (Self-extracting ZIP) → PICTURES/*.BLD
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari1/picmanip/pic_m2r/mpntdemo/pictures/ → *.bld
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/bld/
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/megaPaintPattern/

Links

 * German Wikipedia: TommySoftware
 * , from the Atari Forum Wiki