Young Picasso

File Format
Name	Young Picasso
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Young Picasso
Extension(s)	.yp
Released	≤1993

Young Picasso is a paint program for DOS, designed for children. It was developed by Scarborough Digital, later Blueview Software. Some versions of it (at least 1.3-1.5) have an associated .YP raster graphics format.

Format details

YP format is a profile of Fastgraph Packed Pixel Run format. It uses a standard color palette, and a special header designed for compatibility. The header is 24 bytes, with two of every 3 bytes having value 0. Whether the header is specific to Young Picasso is unknown.

Identification

YP files start with bytes (hex) 50 00 00 50 00 00 52 00 00, containing ASCII characters "P", "P", "R". This probably stands for Packed Pixel Run, not Pablo Picasso's monogram.

Software

• Young Picasso
  • v1.3
  • v1.4
  • v1.5
  • v1.5 at Internet Archive
  • v3.0 - Does not support YP format. Supports PCX and BMP instead.
• Deark
• With difficulty, Fastgraph software could be used.

Sample files

• dexvert samples — image/youngPicasso

Links

• YouTube video by petsasjim1