Atari graphics formats
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
This is a list of graphics formats used on Atari 8-bit, ST, Falcon, and Portfolio computers. More information may be available from the web pages and documentation associated with the RECOIL software listed below.
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Raster graphics formats
(This is the default section. It has not been confirmed that all the formats listed here are actually raster formats.)
| Application or format | Ext. | Platform | Notes and links |
|---|---|---|---|
| AP* | .256, .ap2, .apa, .apc, .plm | 8-bit | |
| Anime 4ever slideshow | .a4r | 8-bit | |
| Apac3 APP | .app | 8-bit | |
| Atari CAD | .drg | 8-bit | |
| AtariGraphics | (.mic) | 8-bit | |
| Atari Player Editor | .apl | 8-bit | |
| AtariTools-800 graphic | .agp | 8-bit | |
| AtariTools-800 player/missile | .pla, .4pl, .mis, .4mi, .4pm | 8-bit | |
| Art Director | .art | ST | |
| Artist (David Eaton) | (.art) | 8-bit | |
| BG9, G09 | .bg9, .g09 | 8-bit | |
| Blazing Paddles window | .wnd | 8-bit | [1] |
| Bugbiter APAC239i | .bgp | 8-bit | |
| Calamus Raster Graphic | .crg | ST | |
| Canvas (Atari) | .cpt, .cnv | ST | |
| Champions' Interlace | .cci, .cin | 8-bit | |
| COKE | .tg1 | Falcon | |
| ColorViewSquash | .rgb | 8-bit | |
| C.O.L.R. Object Editor | .mur, .pal | ST | |
| ComputerEyes | .ce1, .ce2, .ce3 | ST | |
| Crack Art | .ca1, .ca2, .ca3 | ST | |
| Cut Creator | .cut | 8-bit | |
| Cyber Paint Cell | .cel | ST | |
| Dali | .sd0, .sd1, .sd2, .lpk, .mpk, .hpk | ST | |
| DEGAS image (DEGAS, DEGAS Elite) | .pi1, .pi2, .pi3, .pc1, .pc2, .pc3 | ST | |
| DEGAS Elite block | .bl1, .bl2, .bl3 | ST | = ILBM |
| DEGAS Elite brush | .bru | ST | |
| DEGAS Elite icon | .icn | ST | |
| DelmPaint | .del, .dph | Falcon | |
| DeskPic | .gfb | ST | |
| D-GRAPH | .p3c | ST | |
| DuneGraph | .dg1, .dc1 | Falcon | |
| Digi Paint | .ap3, .apv, .dgi, .dgp, .ilc | 8-bit | |
| DIN | .din | 8-bit | |
| Doodle (Atari) | .doo | ST | |
| DrawIt | (.dit) | 8-bit | |
| DU* | .du1, .du2, .duo | ST | |
| EggPaint | .trp | Falcon | |
| Enhanced Simplex / TmS Cranach | .esm | ST, Falcon | |
| EscalPaint | .esc | 8-bit | [2] |
| Extended DEGAS image | .pi4, .pi5, .pi6, .pi7, .pi8, .pi9 | TT, Falcon | |
| EZ-Art Professional | .eza | ST | [3] |
| Falcon True Color | .ftc | Falcon | |
| Floor Designer | .fge | 8-bit | |
| Fuckpaint (see Extended DEGAS image) | .pi4, .pi9 | Falcon | [4] |
| Fullscreen Construction Kit | .kid | ST | |
| Fun with Art | .fwa | 8-bit | |
| Funny Paint | .fun | Falcon | |
| GED | .ged | 8-bit | |
| GEM Raster (GEM Bit Image, Extended GEM Bit Image) | .img, .ximg | ST | |
| Gephard Hires Graphics | .ghg | 8-bit | |
| GFA Artist | .art | ST | |
| GodPaint | .god | Falcon | |
| Graph | .all | 8-bit | |
| Graph2Font | .mch, .g2f | 8-bit | |
| GR* | .gr7, .gr8, .gr9, .gr9p, .g10, .g11 | 8-bit | |
| Graphic Arts Department | .pic | 8-bit | |
| Graphics Processor | .pg1, .pg2, .pg3 | ST | |
| Grass' Slideshow | .hpm | 8-bit | |
| Hard Interlace Picture | .hip | 8-bit | |
| HighresMedium | .hrm | ST | |
| HR | .hr | 8-bit | |
| HCI | .hci, .hr2 | 8-bit | |
| ICDRAW icon | .ibi, .ib3 | Falcon | |
| ICE* | .icn, .imn, .ipc, .ip2 | 8-bit | |
| ImageLab | .b&w, .b_w | Falcon | |
| IMG Scan | .rwl, .rwh, .raw | Falcon | [5] |
| IndyPaint | .tru | Falcon | |
| ING 15 | .ing | 8-bit | |
| InterPainter | .inp, .ins | 8-bit | |
| InShape IIM | .iim | TT, Falcon | |
| INT95a | .int | 8-bit | |
| Interchange File Format / ILBM | .iff | ST | |
| Interlace Graphics Editor | .ige | 8-bit | |
| Interlace Logo Designer | .ild | 8-bit | |
| Atari Interlaced Studio | .ist | 8-bit | |
| Jet Graphics Planner | .jgp | 8-bit | |
| KFX | .kfx | 8-bit | |
| Koala MicroIllustrator | .pic | 8-bit | [6] |
| Kompresor do Animatora | .kpr | 8-bit | |
| Larka Edytor Obiekt | .leo | 8-bit | |
| Ludek Maker | .ldm | 8-bit | |
| Mad Designer | .mbg | 8-bit | |
| Mad Studio | .gr1, .gr2, .gr3 | 8-bit | |
| Magic Painter | (.mgp) | 8-bit | |
| Mamut | .rys | 8-bit | |
| Marco Pixel Editor | .cpi | 8-bit | |
| McPainter | .mcp | 8-bit | |
| MCS | .mcs | 8-bit | |
| MegaPaint | .bld | ST | |
| Micro Illustrator / Graphics 15 | .mic | 8-bit | |
| Movie Maker | .bkg, .shp | 8-bit | |
| Multi Palette Picture | .mpp | ST | |
| NEOchrome | .neo | ST | |
| NEOchrome Master | .neo, .rst | ST | |
| NeoDesk icon | .nic | ST | |
| Overscan Interlaced | .pci | ST | |
| PabloPaint | .ppp, .pa3 | ||
| PaintPro ST/PlusPaint ST | .pic | ST | [7] |
| PaintShop | .psc, .da4 | ST | |
| Paintworks | .cl[0-2], .pg[0-2], .sc[0-2] | ST | |
| Palette Master | .art | ST | |
| Paradox | .mcpp | 8-bit | |
| PGC (Portfolio Graphics Compressed) | .pgc | Portfolio | |
| PGF (Portfolio Graphics) | .pgf | Portfolio | |
| PGX (Portfolio) | .pgx | Portfolio | |
| PhotoChrome | .pcs | ST | |
| Picture Packer | .pp1, .pp2, .pp3 | ST | |
| Picworks | .cp3 | ST | |
| PixArt | .pix | Falcon | |
| PL4 | .pl4 | ST | [8] |
| PMG Designer (Henryk Karpowicz) | .pmd | 8-bit | |
| PowerGraphics | .pgr | 8-bit | |
| Print-Technik | .hir | Falcon | |
| Pryzm Artist | .pzm | 8-bit | |
| Public Painter | .cmp | ST | |
| QuantumPaint | .pbx | ST | |
| RAG-D | .rag | Falcon | [9] |
| RAMbrandt | (.rm0, .rm1, .rm2, .rm3, .rm4) | 8-bit | |
| Rembrandt | .tcp | Falcon | [10] |
| RGB Intermediate Format | .rgb | ST | |
| Rocky Interlace Picture | .rip | 8-bit | |
| SAMAR Hi-res Interlace with Map of Colours | .shc | 8-bit | |
| Signum! | .imc | [11] | |
| Sinbad Slideshow | .ssb | ST | |
| Sketch-PadDles | .skp | 8-bit | |
| SlideShow for VBXE | .dap | 8-bit | |
| Spectrum 512 formats | .spc, .sps, .spu | ST | |
| Spectrum 512 Extended | .spx | ST | |
| Spooky Sprites | .trs, .trp, .tre | Falcon | |
| STAD | .pac | ST | |
| Standard Graphics | .sg3 | 8-bit | |
| Super IRG | .irg, .ir2 | 8-bit | |
| Synthetic Arts | .srt | ST | |
| Taquart Interlace Picture | .tip | 8-bit | |
| Technicolor Dream | .lum, .col | 8-bit | |
| Texture Editor | .txe | 8-bit | |
| Texture Maker0 | .tx0 | 8-bit | |
| Tiny Stuff | .tn1, .tn2, .tn3, .tny | ST | |
| Tobias Richter Fullscreen Slideshow | .pci | ST | |
| TruePaint / Prism Paint | .tpi, .pnt | Falcon | |
| Trzmiel | .cpr | 8-bit | |
| TXS | .txs | 8-bit | |
| VertiZontal Interlacing | .vzi | 8-bit | |
| Vidig Paint | .rap | 8-bit | |
| XGA | .xga | Falcon | |
| XL-Paint | .xlp | 8-bit | |
| XL-Paint MAX | .max, .raw | 8-bit | [12] |
| ZZ_ROUGH | .rgh | ST | [13] |
Animation formats
| Application or format | Ext. | Platform | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ani ST | .scr, .str | ST | |
| Animaster Sprite Bank | .asb | ST | |
| Animatic Film | .flm | ST | |
| Cybermate Delta Animation | .dlt | [14] | |
| Cyber Paint Sequence | .seq | ST | |
| Imagic Film/Picture | .ic1, .ic2, .ic3 | ST | |
| NEOchrome Animation | .ani | ST | |
| Spectrum 512 Anispec | .sps | ST | |
| STOS | .mbk | ST |
Vector graphics formats
| Application or format | Ext. | Platform | Notes and links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ani ST | .scr, .str | ST | |
| Blazing Paddles shape table | .shp | 8-bit | |
| GEM VDI Metafile | .gem | ||
| The Graphics Magician Picture Painter | .spc | 8-bit | [15] |
Character graphics formats
| Application or format | Ext. | Platform | Notes and links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascii-Art Editor | .art | 8-bit | |
| Dir Logo Maker | .dlm | 8-bit | |
| Envision | .map | 8-bit | [16] |
| Semi-Graphic logos Editor | .sge | 8-bit |
Font formats
| Application or format | Ext. | Platform | Notes and links |
|---|---|---|---|
| AtariTools-800 4x8 font | .acs | 8-bit | |
| Blazing Paddles font | .chr | 8-bit | |
| Daisy-Dot 19x16 font | .nlq | 8-bit | |
| DEGAS Elite Font | .fnt | [17] | |
| FNT 8x8 font | .fnt | 8-bit | |
| GDOS Font | .fnt | ST | [18] |
| Interlace Character Editor font | .ice | 8-bit | |
| Signum font | .p9, .p24, .e24, .l30 | ST | |
| Super-IRG 4x8 font | .sif | 8-bit | |
| SXS 16x16 font | .sxs | 8-bit | |
| Warp9 Font | .fnt | [19] |
Other
Atari ST transparent file compression
This is an excerpt from the AtariSTPlusPicView.txt "readme" file, from the Atari ST Plus Picture Viewer v1.15 software by Ben Jos Walbeehm:
Compression was used very often on the Atari ST and in a more elegant way than giving the files extensions like .zip, .rar, .7z, .cab, .gz, .z, and so on. When an image was packed/compressed, it often kept its own extension. So if a file called "image.tny" were compressed with some packer, the resulting file would still be called "image.tny". If the system had the correct tools installed, this would all still work. Those tools would unpack the file transparently to the user. On a PC, this would be like zipping a file called "example.txt", calling the resulting file "example.txt", and having it unzip automatically and displayed in Notepad (or whatever other text editor) when opened.
So there are quite a few Atari ST pictures that you can download from the internet that have been compressed by some external packer.
It lists some examples: Atomik Cruncher, LZ77 (ray/.tSCc.), Pack-Ice, PowerPacker, SpeedPacker, StoneCracker, and Turbo Packer.
Software
- Konvertor
- RECOIL
- Atari Interlace Studio (Windows binary)
- Atari ST Plus Picture Viewer (Windows binary) (2014 archive)
- Tom's Editor
Sample files
- Atari Graphics Archive
- http://recoil.sourceforge.net/examples.zip
- Atari Interlace Studio includes some sample files
- http://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/8bit/Graphics/Collections/
- http://whatis.rest7.com/Atari Sample Atari images (choose specific format to see samples) and a gallery (on the bottom)
Links
- ST Picture Formats, edited by David Baggett
- 1990-04-09
- 1991-01-29
- 1991-06-26
- 1992-09-29
- 1994-10-30
- Modern AtariForumWiki version, with additions by Hans Wessels and others (forked from the 1991-06-26 version)
- Atari ST Graphics Formats File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
- Atari ST Graphics Formats (from archive.org) - Slightly updated version of the above?
