GEM resource file

File Format
Name	GEM resource file
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Resources GEM resource file
Extension(s)	.rsc

GEM resource file (RSC) is a file format used by some Atari software to store menus, dialog boxes, text strings, icons, etc.

It is also sometimes used as an icon library format.

Specifications

• The Atari Compendium: Appendix C: Native File Formats
• Structures used by PC GEM

Software

• Deark can extract some graphics from RSC files.

Sample files

• Atari Icon Library
• If you look at a few dozen Atari programs at random, you'll probably find some RSC files.
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/806atari/ ...
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/atarilibrary/ ...
• dexvert samples — archive/gemResourceFile

Links

• GEM Program and Resource Files, from Atari Computing magazine