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Revision as of 14:53, 7 December 2014
PhotoChrome is raster image file format used on Atari ST computers. It is associated with the PhotoChrome image viewer and converter software by Douglas Little.
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Format
Files have a 6-byte fixed header. It is followed by several segments containing the palette and pixel data, which are RLE-compressed.
The image dimensions are always 320×200 pixels, but the first row is typically not used (apparently due to hardware limitations), making them effectively 320×199.
Some PhotoChrome files contain two separate images. On an actual Atari ST computer, the viewer would be expected to average them together using temporal dithering, to simulate more colors than the computer could actually display.
Identification
Files start with bytes 01 40 00 c8 (representing the width and height).
Software
Sample files
- http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari2/pcs/
- http://samples.libav.org/image-samples/atarist/photochrome/
- RECOIL sample files → PAROT2.PCS, TIGER.PCS
- PhotoChrome → BAY2.PCS, BETTY.PCS
