Format
Microsoft Paint
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Paint
- Version
- 2
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/912
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- Prior to Windows 3.0, the bundled version of Microsoft Paint used a proprietary format with the extension MSP. The format supported only 1 bit monochrome graphics. Windows 3.0 replaced Microsoft Paint with an application called Paintbrush, that could open MSP files, but would save only as PCX or BMP.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
msp - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
- Supported by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
Microsoft Paint v2
- Description
- BOF: LinS{22} 3x16 bit 'null' words
- Provenance
- http://www.fileformat.info/format/mspaint/egff.htm
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
4C696E53{22}000000000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V86
- Release date
- 27 July 2016
-
Added format
Microsoft Paint 2: Full entry added.
-
Added signature
Microsoft Paint 2: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.