CFAST Disney Animation Studio

File Format
Name	CFAST Disney Animation Studio
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Amiga graphics formats CFAST Disney Animation Studio
Extension(s)	.cft

CFAST is an animated raster graphics format associated with the Disney Animation Studio application for Amiga computers.

Format Specification

4 bytes - signature 'GUCF', 'LOCK' or 'STDY'

If the signature is 'LOCK' or 'STDY' then a copyright/description message follows
2 bytes string length
n bytes string
'LOCK' means the file was meant to be saved as final/non editable

Then follows the bitmap header
4 bytes - image width
4 bytes - image height
4 bytes - Amiga screen width (320=lores, 640=hires)
4 bytes - Amiga screen height (200/400, 256/512)
1 byte - number of bitplanes (1..5) (numColors = 2^bitplanes)

Then follows palette information for the first two colors (if there are more colors, they are specified later in the file)
3 bytes - rgb for color index 0
3 bytes - rgb for color index 1

Then follows an extra block of data of varying length
1 byte - extralen
n bytes (unknown contents)

Then follows the number of frames
4 bytes - numFrames

... (TODO)

Software

• Disney Animation Studio
• DASFLICK.ARJ → FLICK.EXE - Player for MS-DOS

Sample files

• DASFLICK.ARJ
  • DASFLICK.ZIP - Another copy

Links

• Disney Animation Studio on YouTube