FAIL is a portable viewer of several 8-bit Atari image formats.

Currently the project consists of:

  • fail2png - portable command-line converter to PNG files

  • FAILWin - viewer for Windows

  • plugin for XnView

Supported file formats

AP3

80x192, 256 colors, interlaced.

APC

"Any Point, Any Color", 80x96, 256 colors, interlaced.

CCI

"Champions' Interlace", 160x192, compressed.

CIN

"Champions' Interlace", 160x192.

CPR

"Trzmiel", 320x192, mono, compressed.

FNT

Standard 8x8 font, mono.

GR8

Standard 320x192, mono.

GR9

Standard 80x192, grayscale.

HIP

"Hard Interlace Picture", 160x200, grayscale. Both 16009- and 16012-byte formats are supported.

HR

256x239, 3 colors, interlaced.

ILC

80x192, 256 colors, interlaced.

INP

160x200, 7 colors, interlaced.

INT

"INT95a", up to 160x239, 16 colors, interlaced.

MIC

Standard 160x192, 4 colors.

PIC

"Koala MicroIllustrator", 160x192, 4 colors, compressed.

PLM

"Plama 256", 80x96, 256 colors.

RIP

"Rocky Interlace Picture", up to 160x239.

SXS

16x16 font, mono.

TIP

"Taquart Interlace Picture", up to 160x119.

How to install and use

fail2png

Extract fail2png.exe to a directory of your choice (for convenience, this directory should be included in your Path environment variable).

Run the program from command line to see the syntax. Unless you specify the -o/--output option, the output filename will be constructed from the input filename with the extension changed to png.

FAILWin

Extract failwin.exe to a directory of your choice.

Usage instructions are needless, it’s a typical Windows application.

XnView plugin

For versions >=1.80, extract Xfail1.usr and Xfail2.usr to the Plugins directory of your XnView installation.

For older versions, extract Xfail1.usr and Xfail2.usr to the PluginsEx directory of your XnView installation, then rename them to Xfail1.dll and Xfail2.dll, respectively. If XnView crashes, try cleaning Filetypes section in xnview.ini.

Authors

Piotr Fusik <fox@scene.pl>

Idea, FAILWin programming.

Adrian Matoga <epi@atari8.info>

Programming.

Pawel Szewczyk <ripek@op.pl>

FAILWin icon, testing.