DGI (Digi-Pic)

File Format
Name	DGI (Digi-Pic)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics DGI (Digi-Pic)
Extension(s)	.dgi
Released	1986

DGI is a raster graphics format associated with Digi-Pic.

Digi-Pic is sort of a PC graphics software tech demo. It was created by Basi Angulo and Dion Kraft.

There were apparently at least two Digi-Pic releases. DGI format is associated with the second release.

Format details

Images are 640x400. File size is 64 008 Bytes. File size and presence of colors suggest 2 bpp. Image is stored in 8 planes. Each plane is 640x100 mono. 8 planes * 640*100 = 64 000 Bytes. The 8 extra bytes are located at offset 32000 (but why?).

DGIMAC.EXE converts .DGI images into monochrome by ignoring every second bit of image. TURBODGI.ZIP displays image in 3 colors (gray, black, red).

Software

• TURBODGI.ZIP: Turbo DiGI Vision Display Utility, a viewer for DOS by Basi Angulo
• CGADGI.ZIP: Viewer for DOS
• [1] → Shareware_Grab_Bag_1988.zip → 008/egadgi.arc: Viewer for DOS
• CONV125.ZIP → DGIMAC.EXE: MS-DOS utility to convert DGI to MacPaint format

Sample files

• TIPS.ZIP → TIPS.DGI (NSFW)
• ATLANTA (NSFW)
• POOLTIME (NSFW)
• TRAVELER
• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/dgi/

Links

• Area code 213 BBS list - Has some information from Dion Kraft.