GRASP GL

File Format
Name	GRASP GL
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Video GRASP GL
Extension(s)	.gl
Released	≤1986

GRASP GL, or GRASP animation, is an animated graphics format associated with the GRASP (Graphical System for Presentation) player software for DOS. It was created by John Bridges, who also created the PIC image format used in PC Paint.

Format

A GRASP GL file is structured as a simple container format. It contains embedded files in various formats, such as PCPaint PIC, CLP, and apparently GIF. One of the files is a .txt file, containing a script that controls the animation.

Software

• http://cd.textfiles.com/garbo/PC/ANIMATIN/ - MS-DOS software (refer to the index)
• Deark can extract the embedded files

Sample files

• http://cd.textfiles.com/vgaspectrum/animate/gl/
• adgl.arj, spaceygl.arj
• http://cd.textfiles.com/garbo/PC/ANIMATIN/ (refer to the index)

Resources

• Wikipedia article: GRASP
• Wikipedia article: GRASP GL library format
• GRASP File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• Another document describing the .GL file format
• Official(?) documentation here (mirror here and here)