MegaPaint BLD

File Format
Name	MegaPaint BLD
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics MegaPaint BLD
Extension(s)	.bld
Released	~1990

MegaPaint BLD is the main native raster graphics format of MegaPaint, a graphics editor developed by TommySoftware. There were editions of MegaPaint for Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Windows. Some were released as shareware. The best information about MegaPaint might be in German.

In addition to raster graphics, MegaPaint apparently has some sort of support for vector graphics.

Related formats

Other MegaPaint formats include:

• .PAT - MegaPaint Pattern
• .VEK - MegaPaint Vector format
• .LIB - Megapaint symbols library
• .FNT - MegaPaint Font

Software

• XnView
• Konvertor
• Rest7 Online Converter
• MegaPaint
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/pslmonthly25/words/dos/gr_draw/megapnt.exe - MegaPaint PC Version 1.10; English; shareware
  • Weird Science Clip Art CD → UTILITY/PC/MEGAPANT/ - Another copy of PC v1.10
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/crawlycrypt2/crm_demo/megapait/ - MegaPaint Professional Demo v3.00; Atari ST; German
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari1/picmanip/pic_m2r/mpntdemo/ - MegaPaint Professional Demo 4.00; Atari ST; English

Sample files

• http://cd.textfiles.com/pslmonthly25/words/dos/gr_draw/megapnt.exe (Self-extracting ZIP) → PICTURES/*.BLD
• http://cd.textfiles.com/suzybatari1/picmanip/pic_m2r/mpntdemo/pictures/ → *.bld

Links

• German Wikipedia: TommySoftware
• MegaPaint file format, from the Atari Forum Wiki