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Picture Exchange
The de facto standard for DOS paint programs.
PCX (Picture Exchange) was one of the first widely accepted standards for DOS imaging. Created by ZSoft for their PC Paintbrush software, it became the native format for Windows 3.0 Paintbrush and supported the evolution of PC graphics hardware from monochrome CGA to 256-color VGA and eventually 24-bit TrueColor.
PCX uses a header containing the version, dimensions, and palette information, followed by image data compressed using a simple Run-Length Encoding (RLE) scheme. This scheme was very efficient for the simple graphics of the 80s (large areas of flat color) but is poor for complex photographs. 256-color palettes are often appended at the end of the file.
Established in 1985. It enjoyed a decade of dominance before being displaced by BMP (on Windows), GIF (on the web), and JPEG (for photos). It is now largely obsolete but still recognized by many tools due to its historical significance.
Bitmap Image File
The classic uncompressed Windows image format.
BMP (Bitmap) is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device. It is one of the oldest image formats still in use, historically associated with the Microsoft Windows operating system.
BMP files typically store color data for each pixel in the image without any compression. This results in very large file sizes but perfect quality and extremely fast decoding. While it supports RLE compression, it is rarely used.
Introduced with Windows 3.0 in 1990. It was the standard format for Windows wallpapers and system graphics for decades.
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