OT:Graphic wizards help: What file format is this?

Ruatha · #1 May 14th, 2003, 11:38 AM

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Originally posted by Gwaihir:
hrm, sounds like it may be SoftImage .pic format - too busy to check now, if someone else wants to try it, go ahead. I'll be back in a few days (must . . . fight . . . forum . . . addiction . . . )

All help is appreciated.
I tried opening them earlier with a program called slowview that should be able to open softimage files, but no gain, it didn't recognize it.

About forum addiction; for me it's to late, I've fallen to the dark side.
But you must fight it, turn to the light, there is still hope for you my son (Now I got a bit carried away there, to my knowledge there is no relationship between Gwaihir and me!).

[ May 14, 2003, 10:40: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Ruatha · #2 May 14th, 2003, 02:16 PM

I've spoken with him and he thinks he has the old drives at home, he'll go storage hunting and I'll get the drives later, the program that made these pictures should still be there.
According to him it is vector based pictures, that should suit the size and content of the files.
When I solve this mystery (If I do), I'll post again.

Ruatha · #3 June 2nd, 2003, 11:10 AM

Now I've got the disks at home, two of them.
I digged out my old 486 and tried to connect them, no go!

These discs are antiques, they must be from a 286!
They use the MFM/RLL interface and can't be connected through the IDE/ATA interface!

I guess I'll have to try and find me a 286 if I'm going to resolve these mysterious picture formats.

Ruatha · #4 June 2nd, 2003, 11:29 AM

I downloaded Lotus 1-2-3 v2.2 Dos Version and ran that program. But that doesn't have any graphic part in it, which Version is the first to have the capacity to make/open PIC files?

Gryphin · #5 June 2nd, 2003, 02:15 PM

This link list several "dos viewers"
http://www.nic.funet.fi/mirrors/simt...phics-pre.html
I am not able to test them.
Good luck.

Ruatha · #6 June 2nd, 2003, 09:34 PM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
This link list several "dos viewers"
http://www.nic.funet.fi/mirrors/simt...phics-pre.html
I am not able to test them.
Good luck.

Trued one of them so far, "Imagepro", it says the files aren't Dr Halo PIC files...

I'll try "Picem27" next...

Ruatha · #7 September 18th, 2003, 12:00 AM

I've identified the program.
It's IBM Picture Maker 1.01
Now I just need to find a way to view the pictures.......
If anyone has a viewer for IBM picture maker please contact me!