P-Screen COM Screen
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
P-Screen COM Screen is a character graphics format native to P-Screen, a DOS utility developed by Rob W. Smetana and Pro-Formance. It is a self-displaying COM file. The format was introduced in P-Screen v3.1.
It is notable for its similarity to TheDraw COM File. But it is a different format, not compatible with any known version of TheDraw COM File.
As of v5.5, the freely-distributable version of P-Screen can read the format, but does not support writing it.
Identification
Known files have ASCII text at offset 9 that begins "Pro~Formance Screen Design".
Compare to TheDraw COM File#Identification.
Software
- P-Screen v3.1: Resource For Source BASIC → BASIC_01/PSCRN31.ZIP
- P-Screen v5.5
Sample files
- SPARKL41.ZIP → *.COM
- PSCRN55.ZIP → PSCREEN.COM
