Here we go again, on yet another side quest, I didn’t mean to, but couldn’t help myself. After finishing off with the CAT file variant we saw with M1 Tank Platoon from MicroProse in my …| Ouch my eye!
We have some unfinished business with regards to the MicroProse CAT file format, it’s time to start wrapping things up. The last time when we looked at the CAT file format we determined the f…| Ouch my eye!
Once again it appears we need to realign the naming of our PIC file formats. Luckily it’s only a small one this time around, and with it we also add a new title, or rather a port of a title t…| Ouch my eye!
I am remastering this post to publish releases of CIVED, latest being 0.0.4a, a freshly built PIC viewer that can read Civilization I PIC and MAP files, and convert them to GIFs. CIVED has been refurbished and is now released as bundle in the JCivED toolbox: see this thread. The original...| CivFanatics Forums
Posts related to my efforts in reverse engineering the MicroProse .PIC file format used to store the visual assets for many of their PC/DOS based games in the late 1980's and early 1990's| Ouch my eye!
We last left off having uncovered a dew more mysteries of the MicroProse PIC file format. We wrote a tool to examine PIC files to try and determine which version of the file they were, after some r…| Ouch my eye!
After practically melting my brain figuring out the LZSS compressor over the past several days, it’s time to take a break from the PIC file format for a post or two, and focus in on another f…| Ouch my eye!
This post is not what I thought it would end up being about. I had plans, but it seems fate, and the dark corners of my brain, had a different path set out for me. You see after I wrapped up my las…| Ouch my eye!
Maybe not rewriting it, but correcting our recording of it. In my last post we analyzed the assets for a large number of titles from MicroProse that expanded our understanding of the sub variants a…| Ouch my eye!
Several posts back we looked at some other MicroProse titles and discovered that the PIC file format has evolved over the years with various titles. In this post we’re going to look at a few …| Ouch my eye!
Now that we have our decoding of the PIC images up to a well-defined point for F15-SE2, it’s time to look and see where else MicroProse has used this format. As we know from the DarkLands doc…| Ouch my eye!
In my last post we left off with having a basic LZW decompressor up and running, now it’s time for tackling the RLERun-Length Encodingencoding of the data that the LZW comp…| Ouch my eye!
By the end of my last post we had established that the MicroProse PIC file format likely uses LZWLempel-Ziv-Welch compression, on top of RLERun-Length Encoding&nb…| Ouch my eye!
As we left off in my last entry, we had determined that the format was not the Pictor PC Paint .PIC file format as I had hypothesized. One of the first things to do is to search the Internet to see…| Ouch my eye!