OPTIKS COM image

File Format
Name	OPTIKS COM image
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics OPTIKS COM image
Extension(s)	.com
Released	1988

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.

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.

Identification

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

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

Software

• OPTIKS (some versions; write-only)

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+.

No conversion utility is known, though you could execute the file in a DOS environment and take a screenshot.

Sample files

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