Format
Microsoft Paint
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Paint
- Version
- 1
- Identifiers
- PUID: x-fmt/214
- 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 previous version of
Internal signatures
Microsoft Paint v1
- Description
- BOF: DanM{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
44616E4D{22}000000000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V86
- Release date
- 27 July 2016
-
Added signature
Microsoft Paint 1: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.
-
Updated
Microsoft Paint 1: Changed name from Windows Paint 3.0, added description.