TGA

File Format
Name	TGA
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics TGA
Extension(s)	.tga, .icb, .vda, .vst
LoCFDD	fdd000179, fdd000180
PRONOM	x-fmt/367, fmt/402
Released	1984

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).

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 images

• TGA Sample Files

Links

• Truevision TGA: Wikipedia
• TGA File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• Creating TGA Image files By Paul Bourke, 1996.