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Topic       : ATARI ST Picture formats
Author      : David Baggett/Jan K⌐upka
Version     : atari_gf.hyp 0.01 (17/09/96)
Subject     : Documentation/File formats
Nodes       : 52
Index Size  : 1328
HCP-Version : 3
Compiled on : Atari
@charset    : atarist
@lang       : 
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@help       : 
@options    : -i -s +y +z
@width      : 75STOS            *.MBK

9 words         ?
1 longlong = 4 bytes
          $19861987 (magic number?)
1 longlong = 4 bytes
          offset from this long to header for low resolution
                parameter block (if past end of file, no low res frames)
1 longlong = 4 bytes
          offset from this long to header for med resolution
                parameter block (if past end of file, no med res frames)
1 longlong = 4 bytes
          offset from this long to header for high resolution
                parameter block (if past end of file, no high res frames)
1 wordword = 2 bytes
          number of low resolution frames
1 wordword = 2 bytes
          number of medium resolution frames
1 wordword = 2 bytes
          number of high resolution frames

For each frame {
1 longlong = 4 bytes
          offset to data (probably only used internally by STOS)
1 byte          width in words (multiply by 16 to get width in pixels)
1 byte          height in pixels
1 byte          X hotspot location
1 byte          Y hotspot location
}

(The format implies other stuff could be here.)


1 longlong = 4 bytes
          ["PALT" $50414C54]
16 words        palette

?               words of data for each frame, in the order mentioned in the
                header.  Monoplanar mask data follows image data for each
                frame.
? words         total

  The frames often seem to be in semi-random order, not necessarily
in the order they are to be animated.