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Paintbrush PCX

Quick Info

The PCX format was first used by Paintbrush, originally written by ZSoft. Nowadays, almost every program supports PCX files, since they are quite easy to implement. PCX includes a simple RLE compression method, and supports color maps as well as truecolor and greyscale images.

Quick Info:

Name: Paintbrush PCX
Type: Bitmap Image
Extension: PCX
Native Application: ZSoft Paintbrush
Specification:
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/formats/pcx.doc
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