Format

Packed-Ice True Colour Picture [Spooky Sprites] (Atari Falcon)

Summary

Name

Packed-Ice True Colour Picture [Spooky Sprites] (Atari Falcon)

Identifiers

PUID: fmt/1608

Format type

Image (Raster)

Description

True Colour Picture files are part of raster image graphics associated with Spooky Sprites, a graphics editor for Atari Falcon. This particular record identifies True Colour Picture files that were compressed using Packed-Ice, a file compression tool used on Atari computers. Packed-Ice was developed by pseudonym "Axe of Delight", later changed to "Axe of Superior". There are several different versions of this compression tool. The files compressed using Packed-Ice program, start with ASCII "Ice!", or "ICE!", followed by a gap between 4-11 characters and then the magic bytes of the original file format. The Atari Falcon030 (usually shortened to Atari Falcon), released in 1992, was the final personal computer product from Atari Corporation. A high-end model of the Atari ST line, the machine is based on a Motorola 68030 CPU and a Motorola 56000 digital signal processor, a feature which distinguishes it from most other microcomputers of the era. It included a VIDEL programmable graphics system which greatly improved graphics capabilities.

Note

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Spooky_Sprites http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Pack-Ice https://mikro.naprvyraz.sk/docs/Coding/1/PACKING.TXT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Falcon

File extensions

trp, tru

Source

The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Relationships

Is supertype of

• True Colour Picture [Spooky Sprites] (Atari Falcon)

Internal signatures

Changelog

• Added in V101

  Release date

  15 February 2022

  Packed-Ice True Colour Picture [Spooky Sprites] (Atari Falcon): Signature researched and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.

  Packed-Ice True Colour Picture [Spooky Sprites] (Atari Falcon): Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.