Parallaction/Formats
All values are little endian for DOS version.
Big Red Adventure (DOS)
Graphics for backgrounds (BKG), splash screens (BMP) and items (RAS):
Offset | Size | Description |
0000h | 4 | Signature (0 for RAS/BMP, 59A66A95h for BKG). |
0004h | 4 | Image width. |
0008h | 4 | Image height. |
000Ch | 4 | Unused. |
0010h | 4 | Unused. |
0014h | 4 | Unused. |
0018h | 4 | Unused. |
001Ch | 4 | Unused. |
0020h | 768 | 256 colors palette entries in RRRRR.....GGGGG.....BBBBB.... format. |
0320h | width * height | Uncompressed raw bitmap data. |
Graphics file for animations (ANI), dialogues (TAL) and menu items (WIN) contain multiple frames packed with a RLE variant. The first word (2 bytes) in the file holds the number of frames stored. The format of each frame follows:
Offset | Size | Description |
0000h | 2 | Compressed data size. |
0002h | 2 | Image X. Used for in game positioning, since frames from the same animation may have different sizes. |
0004h | 2 | Image Y. Used for in game positioning, since frames from the same animation may have different sizes. |
0006h | 2 | Image width. |
0008h | 2 | Image height. |
000Ah | see field at offset 0 | Compressed data. |