PixFolio catalog
PixFolio, including its predecessor ShowGIF (also written Showgif), is an image viewer and image file management application for Windows 3.x. It was developed by Allen C. Kempe and (for some versions) Paul R. Hachey.
It "catalog" database consists of a .CAT data file, and a companion .CIX index file. The CAT file contains thumbnail images, and other metadata.
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Disambiguation
Note that there are several other unrelated programs named ShowGIF.
Identification
CAT: There's no nice way to identify a CAT file. But it can be identified reliably, say by using the predictable positions of the fields of the first item. For example, bytes (hex) 28 00 00 00 (from a BMP header) appear at offset 374. 0x3a appears at offsets 356 and 359, as part of the ASCII timestamp. Etc.
CIX: (TODO)
Software
There are many versions of PixFolio. Selected versions are listed here.
- ShowGIF v1.08
- ShowGIF v1.09l
- PixFolio v1.00
- PixFolio v1.04.14
- PixFolio v2.0.29 (beta)
- PixFolio v2.0.104
- PixFolio v2.0.155
- Chip Hitware Vol. 3 → CHIPHIT3/MULTMEDI/GRAFIK/PIXFOLIO/PIXF16.ZIP - PixFolio v2.0.170
Sample files
- Aztech's Super Games → FOR_PC/*.{CAT,CIX}
