newcoleco Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 (edited) Dale Wick's bitmap pictures also known as .pc files are the PATTERN (6KB) and COLOR (6KB) data to be loaded in VRAM on any machine using TMS9918/28 video chip to display a fullscreen bitmap picture. Because of its simplicity, this format was adopted in the AtariMax Ultimate SD ColecoVision Multicart product and used to show a screenshot preview of games or to simply display nice various fullscreen pictures such as pixelart. And here is a very simple program I wrote in Java to open .pc files on your PC computer. Download (Java, Jar, Exe) : ColecoPictureViewer.zip Some pictures in PC format : SomePCPictures.zip Edited July 4, 2016 by newcoleco 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digress Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Can't get it to work. Just won't open. I updated my java to the latest version. Is it 32 bit maybe as I am 64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newcoleco Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 (edited) Can't get it to work. Just won't open. I updated my java to the latest version. Is it 32 bit maybe as I am 64bit Try compiling the JAVA source code included. Please note : This is a very simple program, no GUI with a file browser. You can drag and drop the .pc file on the executable or make your PC associate the .pc file extension to this program to open the pictures automatically when you double-click them. Enjoy! Edited July 11, 2016 by newcoleco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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