Windows DDB

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File Format
Name Windows DDB
Ontology
Extension(s) .ddb, .bmp
PRONOM fmt/114
Released 1985

Windows DDB (Device-Dependent Bitmap), or Windows BMP v1, is a graphics format associated with Microsoft Windows 1.0. It has only a little in common with the BMP formats that succeeded it.

Disambiguation

The term DDB is also used for the in-memory BITMAP structure used by the Windows API. This structure is not necessarily the same as the file format described in this article. (Maybe it is the same on old versions of Windows?)

Bitmap files in this format can be found in the Windows 2 DDK.

This format is not the format saved by Windows 1.0 Paint.

Format

Files begin with a 16-byte header, the last 14 bytes of which correspond to the BITMAP structure:

Offset Type Meaning
0x0000 WORD File type: 0x0002, RT_BITMAP. Top bit set if discardable.
0x0002 WORD bmType: Always 0x0000 for main memory bitmap
0x0004 WORD bmWidth: Width in pixels
0x0006 WORD bmHeight: Height in pixels
0x0008 WORD bmWidthBytes: Width of a line in bytes
0x000A BYTE bmPlanes: Number of planes in bitmap
0x000B BYTE bmBitsPixel: Number of bits per pixel
0x000C DWORD bmBits: Always zero in disk file

This is followed by the bitmap, in top-to-bottom order, with bmWidthBytes bytes per line.


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