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- Apple II
- File Type Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- File Type: $08
- Auxiliary Type: $0000 to $3FFF
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- Full Name: Apple II Graphics File
- Short Name: Graphics File
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- Revised by: Matt Deatherage May 1989
- Written by: Matt Deatherage November 1988
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- Files of this type and auxiliary type contain standard Apple II graphics
- files.
- Changes since November 1988: The offset was incorrectly listed as +121
- instead of +120. The hexadecimal value of $78 is correct.
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- Files of type $08 and any auxiliary type less than or equal to $3FFF contain a
- standard Apple II graphics file in one of several modes. After determining
- that the auxiliary type is not $4000 or $4001 (which have been defined for
- high-resolution and double high-resolution pictures packed with the Apple IIGS
- PackBytes routine), you can determine the mode of the file by examining byte
- +120 (+$78). The value of this byte, which ranges from zero to seven, is
- interpreted as follows:
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- Mode Page 1 Page 2
- 280 x 192 Black & White 0 4
- 280 x 192 Limited Color 1 5
- 560 x 192 Black & White 2 6
- 140 x 192 Full Color 3 7
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- Note that some modes only apply to high-resolution while some only apply to
- double high-resolution.
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- The format of the file is as follows:
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- +000 to +8191 Bytes High-resolution image or portion of
- double high-resolution image stored
- in auxiliary memory.
- +8192 to +16383 Bytes Portion of double high-resolution
- image stored in main memory (not
- present for high-resolution).
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- File type $08 was originally defined as an Apple /// FotoFile, but now it is
- useful for those applications that wish to save high-resolution or double
- high-resolution data with a file type other than $06, which is a standard
- binary file. If you choose to use this type, you should remember that older
- applications which do not check the auxiliary type may attempt to interpret
- these files incorrectly.
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