OPTIKS COM image

Latest revision as of 17:52, 20 March 2026

OPTIKS COM image refers to a self-displaying image format created by OPTIKS, a graphics application by Keith P. Graham. It is in the form of a DOS COM file. The format was new in OPTIKS v2.11 (1988-11-01).

OPTIKS usually calls the format Self Scrolling COM file or Self Displaying COM file. The generated files contain the names OPTIKS Quick View and QVIEW.

[edit] Format details

The generated files are highly formulaic. There are at least two, probably only two, slightly different versions:

• One made by v2.11 to 2.15. Bytes bb 00 10 b4 appear at offset 316.
• One made by v2.16(?) to 3.01. Bytes 8d 1e 70 17 appear at offset 316.

[edit] Identification

The first 22 bytes of a file are 0xe9 0x39 0x01 0x0d 0x0a, followed by ASCII "OPTIKS Quick View".

[edit] See also

• OPTIKS
• FMAC2COM - A format with a similar function, by the same author
• ICE (executable compression)#See also, for other formats by the same author

[edit] Software

• OPTIKS (some versions; write-only)
• Deark

OPTIKS typically has a free and a commercial version. Some of the free versions refuse to save to COM format. The feature seems to work in at least free version 2.18b+.

[edit] Sample files

• LOGOPCL.ZIP (v2.11-2.15)
• KEENALP2.ZIP
• Coco's Super Shareware Box - II → DOS/DPRINTER/YB551.ZIP → most .COM files