EPYX Fun With Art file format

[TopGunBBS86]

Already covered? I tried a search, but came up negative.

In the 80s, I used EPYX Fun With Art on my 800XL to create a lot of raster images. I still have them saved on floppy disk. I know I can boot a ROM of Fun With Art through emulation, and open these files in a Windows environment. Then I can just use a screen grab to get access to the bitmaps in modern software.

However, I am wondering if there are any Windows-based image viewers that can open, or convert, these pics as-is. I have them saved on floppies in *.pic format. However, I am wondering if they should be renamed with the *.fwa extension.

Thanks for the feedback.

Edited November 20, 2018 by TopGunBBS86

[thetick1]

I would just use emulator and use snippy / screen grab.

 

Of note I did find a cool article about a BASIC program for converting files between old Atari formats:

 

Now...universal picture file compatibility (... for 1985!)

 

https://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n7/rapidgraphicsconverter.html

Edited November 20, 2018 by thetick1

[Mr Robot]

Recoil can open them

 

http://recoil.sourceforge.net/formats.html#Atari-8-bit

[thetick1]

Recoil can open them

 

http://recoil.sourceforge.net/formats.html#Atari-8-bit

 

Wow that is amazing. Very cool and useful!

[TopGunBBS86]

Recoil can open them

 

http://recoil.sourceforge.net/formats.html#Atari-8-bit

Thanks, I downloaded RECOIL and will check it out shortly.

[TopGunBBS86]

Worked great! I had to rename the files as *.fwa (Fun With Art). Recoil opened them, and I can save them as *.png files. Thanks again.

[Kyle22]

IIRC, there are some bytes directly written to sector 720 which contain the DLI data.