Retro images

The formats of the classic paint programs on the Amiga and the PC. They store small palette images with simple run-length compression, and many old games and demos still hold their art in them.

Formats

.IFF

Interleaved Bitmap (IFF ILBM)

Amiga and Deluxe Paint pictures, stored as interleaved bitplanes.

.PCX

PC Paintbrush image

ZSoft’s MS-DOS paint format: a 128-byte header and run-length encoded lines.