OPTIKS COM image
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OPTIKS COM image refers to a self-displaying image format created by OPTIKS, a graphics application by Keith P. Graham. It is in the form of a DOS COM file. The format was new in OPTIKS v2.11 (1988-11-01).[1]
OPTIKS usually calls the format Self Scrolling COM file or Self Displaying COM file. The generated files contain the names OPTIKS Quick View and QVIEW.
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Identification
The first 22 bytes of a file are 0xe9 0x39 0x01 0x0d 0x0a, followed by ASCII "OPTIKS Quick View".
See also
- OPTIKS
- FMAC2COM - A format with a similar function, by the same author
- ICE (executable compression)#See also, for other formats by the same author
Software
- OPTIKS (some versions; write-only)
OPTIKS typically has a free and a commercial version. Some of the free versions refuse to save to COM format. The feature seems to work in at least free version 2.18b+.
No conversion utility is known, though you could execute the file in a DOS environment and take a screenshot.
References
- ↑ According to the WHATS.NEW file from OPTIKS v2.15.
