GRASP GL

File Format
Name	GRASP GL
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Animation 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; later Graphics Animation System for Professionals) player software for DOS. It was created by John Bridges, who also created the PIC image format used in PC Paint.

Format details

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

Related formats

• Amiga GL - variant
• GRASP font

Software

• GRASP 1.10c
• 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)
• dexvert samples — video/grasp

Resources

• Wikipedia:Graphics Animation System for Professionals
• 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)