TGA
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
TGA (Targa) is a simple raster image file format developed by Truevision, Inc. (then named EPICenter) in 1984. Designed for use with MS-DOS color applications, TGA is the native format of Truevision's TARGA (Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter) boards, which were some of the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support 24-bit RGB color encoding (sometimes termed truecolor).
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Identifiers
Filename extensions other than .tga are obsolete. Originally, some Truevision products used other extensions: .icb (Image Capture Board), .vda (Video Display Adapter), .vst (Vista).
Specifications
- Truevision TGA File Format Specification, Version 2.0: PostScript· PDF· HTML
- Information extracted by Martin Reddy from Appendix C of the Truevision Technical Guide
- Another copy of the file
- Picture format docs (of a number of formats including this one)
Sample files
- http://www.fileformat.info/format/tga/sample/index.htm
- http://samples.libav.org/image-samples/TGA/
- http://links.uwaterloo.ca/Repository/TGA/
- http://www.virtualservidores.com/cstrike/gfx/env/
Links
- Truevision TGA: Wikipedia
- TGA File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
- Creating TGA Image files By Paul Bourke, 1996.
