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Re: Apple II graphics file format



Ophidian <zacwbond@vt.edu> wrote:
> Where can I find a detailed description of graphics file formats on the 
> Apple II?  I found this site on file formats:
> 
> http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apple2/technotes/ftn/FTN.08.0000
> 
> and it tells me one piece of information, namely that location $78 is 
> the display mode for the file.  Clearly the image is compressed and 
> there is probably more header information, but I can't seem to find 
> further details.  Can anyone help?


I don't believe the image is compressed -- it's 8192 bytes long.  The
magic location $78 is in a "screen hole".

Type $08 (FOT) wasn't used for standard hi-res images much.  Most things
just used BIN.

Do you have a file of this type?  If so: HGR then BLOAD file,a$2000,t$08 .
If it's on a disk image, open it with CiderPress.

FOT with auxtype $4000 is compressed, according to the file type note, but
I've never seen a file stored this way.

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