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by ecraven
Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:10 pm
Forum: Graphic file formats
Topic: (Original) Railroad Tycoon PIC format
Replies: 3
Views: 1809

Re: (Original) Railroad Tycoon PIC format

Attached two images, LABS and LOGO, with a screenshot. They are displayed as 640x400, but bytes 2,3 are 0x40 0x01 (0x140 -> 320) and bytes 4,5 are 0x00c8 (-> 200), so I believe that is in fact the correct resolution. They seem to be merely scaled by 2 on each axis. I'm guessing there's some sort of ...
by ecraven
Sun Jun 26, 2016 5:39 pm
Forum: Graphic file formats
Topic: (Original) Railroad Tycoon PIC format
Replies: 3
Views: 1809

(Original) Railroad Tycoon PIC format

Greetings! I've been looking into the original Railroad Tycoon (Sid Meier & Microprose). All the image data seems to be in .PIC files, which are different than the .PIC files used by Civilization and Darklands (which appeared a year or so later). They all start with 0x0f/0x07 0x00 maybe some sor...