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RECOIL Changelog

What's new in RECOIL 6.1.1

Jul 22, 2021
  • New Atari 8-bit formats: Mad Studio (AN2, AN4, AN5, TL4), Zoom-4 graphics editor (ZM4)
  • Improved formats: MSX Screen 4 (SC4), Amiga icon (INFO), Mad Studio (GR1, GR2, MPL)
  • Notarized the macOS package

New in RECOIL 6.1.0 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Lifted limits on file size (from 6 MB to 2 GB) and number of pixels (from 3 MP to 134 MP)
  • New format: Tandy 1000 DeskMate Paint (PNT)
  • Apple silicon compatibility
  • win64.zip package
  • Restored Windows XP compatibility

New in RECOIL 5.1.0 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • New formats:
  • Apple II: Apple Preferred Format (GS/IIGS/PNT/SHR), Multi-palette (32K), 3201
  • Atari 8-bit: Mad Studio (GR0/ASC/SCR, SPR, MSL, MPL)
  • C64: CharPad (CTM), Centauri Logo-Editor (CLE)
  • NEC PC-88: DaVinci (IMG)
  • NEC PC-98: Mapletown Network (ML1, MX1, NL3)
  • ZX Spectrum: ZX Spectrum Next (NXI), Border Screen by Trefi (BSP)
  • RECOILWin:
  • Multiple monitors support: full screen on the current monitor, adapt to the DPI when switching monitors.
  • Press 5-9 for 5x-9x zoom.
  • Windows 10 app:
  • Full screen mode.

New in RECOIL 5.0.1 (Mar 18, 2020)

  • Fixed colors in the ICE format.
  • Fixed search and the app icon on new Androids.

New in RECOIL 5.0.0 (Mar 18, 2020)

  • New formats: AMOS (ABK), Z's Staff Kid98 (ZIM), Turbo Rascal Syntax Error (FLF).
  • Upgraded the Ć programming language and C code to C99.

New in RECOIL 4.3.2 (Jul 6, 2019)

  • New formats: APS, G9S/SFD, HPS, ILS, INS, PLS, GR9P, AGS, Electronika BK (PIC), STL.
  • Additional variants of the Japanese formats: SC5, SC6, SC7, GL5, GL7, MAG, PI, PIC, SCC+S1C, SR6. Also new platforms: FM Towns, NEC PC-80 and NEC PC-88 VA.
  • Alias extensions: 256, HAM, APA.

New in RECOIL 4.3.1 (Dec 7, 2018)

  • New formats: HAME, DCTV, HRG
  • Improved formats: PI, SPX, PCS, PI4, IFF (RAST chunk), IMG (STTT/HyperPaint), SRT
  • Android: fixed crash on start on some devices; file picker asks for permission (previously granted on install)
  • Windows 10: open multiple files
  • HTML5: save as PNG

New in RECOIL 4.3.0 (Jun 10, 2018)

  • New ports:
  • Plugin for XnView MP (Windows, macOS, Linux) - requires XnView MP 0.91 or newer
  • macOS binary of recoil2png
  • New formats:
  • Amstrad CPC: SymbOS graphic (SGX)
  • Atari 8-bit: Graph2Font (MIC+COL)
  • Atari ST: Canvas (CPT+HBL, FUL), Palette Master (ART)
  • C64: Pixel Perfect (PP, PPP), FLI Profi (FPR), Flip (FBI)
  • MSX: GFX9k (G9B), MIG
  • NEC PC-98: PI
  • PC: Handy Scanner 2000 POSTERING (HS2)
  • Psion Series 3: PIC/ICN
  • Improved formats:
  • Atari 8-bit: added VBXE color map (G2F), raster changes (PGR)
  • Atari ST: fixed Art Director colors (ART)
  • C64: fixed background color (CHE)
  • MSX: improved colors (SC2, SC3, SC8), fixed odd width (GL6, GL7)
  • Alias extensions: DHGR, HPL, FCP

New in RECOIL 4.2.0 (Feb 21, 2018)

  • New formats:
  • Atari 8-bit: SlideShow for VBXE (DAP), KSS-Paint (KSS), PowerGraphics (PGR), Hard Color Map (HCM)
  • MSX: GL5+PL5, GL6+PL6, GL7+PL7, GL8, GLA+PLA, GLC, SC3, SC4, SC5+S15, SC6, SC6+S16, SC7+S17, SC8+S18, SCA+S1A, SCC+S1C, SR6, SRI+PL7, PCT, STP, FNT, thanks FRS
  • PC: Image 72 font (FNT)
  • Timex 2048: hi-res (SCR)
  • TRS-80: MagicDraw (SHR)
  • ZX Spectrum: Border Screen (BSC), Border Screen Multicolor 8x4 (BMC4), Speccy eXtended Graphics (SXG), CHR$ (CH$)
  • Improved formats:
  • Atari STE: NEOchrome Master (NEO)
  • MSX: implemented sprites (SC2, SC3, SC4, SC5, SC6, SC7, SC8, SCA, SCC), fixed some files (MAG)
  • Ports:
  • Android: file picker now shows internal storage, SD card and icons
  • HTML 5: browse multiple images and multi-file images
  • Windows 10: added: save as PNG, share, copy to clipboard
  • More detailed platform information: Apple II/IIe/IIGS, MSX/MSX2/MSX2+, non-standard display adapters (VBXE, ULAplus, Evolution)

New in RECOIL 4.1.0 (Oct 20, 2017)

  • New formats:
  • Amstrad CPC: Mode 5 (CM5+GFX), Perfect Pix (PPH+ODD+EVE)
  • Atari 8-bit: Mad Studio (GR1, GR2, GR3)
  • Commodore 64: SpritePad (SPD), SEUCK (A, G), PETSCII Editor (PET, SCR+COL)
  • Commodore 128: BASIC 8 (PICT, BRUS), I Paint (IP)
  • TRS-80: CompuServe RLE (RLE)
  • Improved formats:
  • Apple Macintosh: PNT
  • Atari 8-bit: G2F (GTIA modes, DLI+), MCH
  • Atari Falcon: IMG
  • Commodore 64: KOA
  • Commodore 128: BM
  • Ports:
  • RECOILWin: press 1-4 for 1x-4x zoom
  • HTML 5: filter in the file picker
  • Linux: added recoil2png man page

New in RECOIL 4.0.0 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Formats:
  • Atari 8-bit: added Graph2Font (G2F), GED, Floor Designer (FGE), Standard Graphics 3 (SG3), Graphic Arts Department (PIC), Texture Maker0 16x16x16 (TX0), DrawIt, Sketch-PadDles (SKP), improved MCH
  • Atari ST/TT/Falcon: added dozens of formats and improved the existing ones, thanks to Lonny Pursell
  • Amiga: slightly improved IFF
  • ZX81: added ZXpaintyONE (ZP1, RAW), fixed P
  • Ports:
  • Windows thumbnails: enable thumbnails automatically in folders with images
  • RECOILWin: support high-resolution displays
  • Windows 10: improved icons, display filename
  • recoil2png: process next files after an error
  • Android: switched to the standard build system

New in RECOIL 3.5.0 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • New Windows 10 port.
  • Decoding additional variants of: BEAM, IFF, SC2, SC5, SC7, SCA, SR5, SR7, XIMG.
  • New formats:
  • Amiga: TVPaint (DEEP)
  • Atari Falcon: TIMG
  • MSX: Maki-chan Graphics (MAG, MAX)
  • NEC PC-88: Maki-chan Graphics (MAG)
  • NEC PC-98: Maki-chan Graphics (MAG, MKI), XLD4 (Q4)
  • PlayStation: TIM
  • Sharp X68000: PIC
  • ZX Spectrum: ULAplus (SCR)

New in RECOIL 3.5.0 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Formats:
  • Atari 8-bit: added Graph2Font (G2F), GED, Floor Designer (FGE), Standard Graphics 3 (SG3), Graphic Arts Department (PIC), Texture Maker0 16x16x16 (TX0), DrawIt, Sketch-PadDles (SKP), improved MCH
  • Atari ST/TT/Falcon: added dozens of formats and improved the existing ones, thanks to Lonny Pursell
  • Amiga: slightly improved IFF
  • ZX81: added ZXpaintyONE (ZP1, RAW), fixed P
  • Ports:
  • Windows thumbnails: enable thumbnails automatically in folders with images
  • RECOILWin: support high-resolution displays
  • Windows 10: improved icons, display filename
  • recoil2png: process next files after an error
  • Android: switched to the standard build system

New in RECOIL 3.4.0 (Feb 4, 2016)

  • Decoding the exact width of several formats, no more right-padding.
  • Fixed crashes on invalid files.
  • Faster calculation of unique colors.
  • Honoring the aspect ratio of IFF and IMG.
  • Fixed decoding of some Spectrum 512 SPC.
  • Fixed downscaling artifacts in RECOILWin.
  • IFF improvements:
  • Added decoding of multi-palette.
  • Added decoding of RGB8 and RGBN.
  • Ignoring the compression field of ACBM.
  • Improved EHB and HAM detection.
  • Improved contrast for 12-bit CMAP.
  • New formats:
  • Apple IIGS: SH3.
  • Atari 8-bit: Envision (MAP), EnvisionPC (MAP), KFX, Texture Editor (TXE), Interlace Logo Designer (ILD).
  • Atari ST: NEOchrome Master (NEO, NEO+RST).
  • Atari Falcon: XGA, Prism Paint (PNT, TPI).
  • Commodore 128: VBM.
  • Android changes:
  • Favorite files and folders and a shortcut to the downloads.
  • Additional "back" on the action bar.
  • Compatibility with old Androids.
  • Full-screen error messages.

New in RECOIL 3.3.0 (Feb 4, 2016)

  • Added support for multi-file pictures (extensions listed below with a plus sign).
  • Added more variants of ICE and MAC formats.
  • The LUM format contains 119 lines and not only 96.
  • Fixed crash saving a PNG on Windows.
  • Fixed Atari ST/STE formats unavailable on OS X.
  • On Android, files are now sorted case-insensitively.
  • New formats:
  • Amstrad CPC: SCR+PAL, WIN+PAL.
  • Apple II: SPR.
  • Atari 8-bit: CPI, CUT, KPR, LDM, LUM+COL, RAP, TXS.
  • Commodore 64: KLA.
  • MSX: SC5/GE5, SC7/GE7, SR5+PL5, SR7+PL7, YJK.
  • Oric: CHS, HIR/HRS.
  • Timex 2048: MLT.
  • TRS-80: HR.
  • TRS-80 Color Computer: CLP, GRF/MAX/P41/PIX, P11.

New in RECOIL 3.2.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • New formats:
  • - Amiga: INFO
  • - Amstrad CPC: SCR, HGB, FNT
  • - Apple II: HGR, DHR, SHR
  • - Atari 8-bit: RYS, HCI, MCPP
  • - Atari ST/STE: DUO/DU1, DU2, PL4
  • - BBC Micro: BB0, BB1, BB2, BB4, BB5, BBG
  • - Commodore 16: P4I
  • - Commodore 64: A64/WIG
  • - MSX: SCA, SCC, SRS
  • - PC: EPA, MSP
  • - ZX81: P

New in RECOIL 3.1.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • New formats:
  • - Commodore 64: GoDot (\*.4BT), \*.VIC, FLI Designer (\*.FD2), Multi-Lace Editor (*.MLE)
  • - ZX Spectrum: *.3
  • - Macintosh 128K: MacPaint (*.MAC)
  • - MSX: \*.SC2, \*.GRP, \*.SC8, Graph Saurus (*.SR8)
  • - SAM Coupe: *.SCS4
  • New ports:
  • - OS X Quick Look plugin.
  • - GNOME 3 thumbnailer.
  • - Linux *.DEB and *.RPM binary packages.
  • Android changes:
  • - Search filenames using on-screen keyboard.
  • - Added file information and About boxes.
  • - Don't reset the gallery on orientation change.
  • Other changes:
  • - Disable per-line background color in the Funpaint (FUN) format.
  • - Reset RECOILWin zoom after a large image is open.

New in RECOIL 3.0.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • RECOIL is a continuation of the First Atari Image Library (FAIL) project.
  • In addition to the Atari 8-bit/Portfolio/ST/Falcon formats, RECOIL decodes
  • Amiga, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum files.
  • Other changes from FAIL 2.0.2:
  • - New ports: Android, Paint.NET plugin.
  • - New Atari 8-bit formats: BGP, DGI, LEO, LUM, SIF.
  • - The default Atari 8-bit palette is now Altirra's PAL.
  • - The XnView plugin is now a single file and requires XnView 2.11 or newer.

New in RECOIL 2.0.2 (May 11, 2015)

  • New formats: Interlace Character Editor font (ICE), GEM Bit Image (IMG),
  • Multi Palette Picture (MPP).
  • This is the last release of FAIL. But don't worry! We are just renaming our project
  • to Retro Computer Image Library (RECOIL), because we are going to support formats
  • from 8-bit and 16-bit machines other than Atari. Stay tuned!

New in RECOIL 2.0.1 (May 11, 2015)

  • Added Atari 8-bit formats: IP2, IMN, ICN, DIN, IRG, IR2, VZI.
  • Added "DEGAS Elite" icon (ICN). Fixed decoding of IPC.
  • Thumbnail provider implemented for Windows 2000/XP.
  • Fullscreen mode in HTML 5.

New in RECOIL 2.0.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • Library rewritten from C to the http://cito.sourceforge.net/[Ć programming language].
  • This made it possible to create the HTML 5 port.
  • The rewrite included code clean-up and bug fixes in decoding of
  • RIP, TIP, SGE, HR2, AGP, AP3/APV/DGP/ESC/ILC/PZM, APP, CIN, CCI.
  • Added new formats: ICE PCIN (IPC), Daisy-Dot font (NLQ), PMG Designer (PMD),
  • AtariTools-800 font (ACS), PhotoChrome (PCS), HPM, MCS, Anime 4ever (A4R),
  • DuneGraph compressed (DGC, DC1), Canvas compressed (CPT), Interchange File Format (IFF),
  • DEGAS Elite block (BL1, BL2, BL3), DEGAS Elite brush (BRU).
  • Added auto-detection of Atari STE 4096-color palette.
  • FAILWin and XnView show the computer family of the file format.
  • FAILWin shows the number of alternating frames.
  • The win64 package is now sufficient on 64-bit Windows, there's no need to install the win32 package.
  • Reduced CPU and memory usage in fail2png.

New in RECOIL 1.4.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • Added Atari Falcon formats: Fuckpaint (PI4, PI9), DuneGraph (DGU, DG1),
  • EggPaint (TRP), IndyPaint (TRU), GodPaint (GOD), Falcon True Color (FTC),
  • DelmPaint (DEL, DPH).
  • Added Atari ST formats: Spectrum 512 Smooshed (SPS), DeskPic (GFB),
  • 416x560 DEGAS (PI1).
  • Created plugin for Imagine (might be interesting for Total Commander users,
  • as Imagine includes a Total Commander plugin).
  • Reduced CPU and memory usage in Windows thumbnail provider, ImageMagick
  • and XnView.

New in RECOIL 1.3.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • Added Atari ST formats: DEGAS (PI1, PI2, PI3), DEGAS Elite (PC1, PC2, PC3),
  • NEOchrome (NEO), Spectrum 512 (SPU, SPC), Tiny Stuff (TNY, TN1, TN2, TN3),
  • STAD (PAC), CrackArt (CA1, CA2, CA3), Doodle (DOO), Art Director (ART).
  • Added Atari Portfolio formats (PGF, PGC).
  • More Atari 8-bit formats: Atari Player Editor (APL), Artist (ART),
  • Ascii-Art Editor (ART), Atari CAD (DRG),
  • AtariTools-800 (AGP, PLA, MIS, 4PL, 4MI, 4PM), ING 15 (ING),
  • Lepix dialect of CIN, raw images (GR7, G10, G11).
  • Fixed non-interlaced RIP modes.
  • FAILWin extended with "First/Last file in directory", "Skip files on error".
  • Narrow pictures were cropped in FAILWin.

New in RECOIL 1.2.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • Added decoding of ColorViewSquash (RGB), Blazing Paddles (CHR, SHP, WND),
  • Magic Painter (MGP), Mad Designer (MBG), AtariGraphics (MIC),
  • Fun with Art (FWA), Rambrandt (RM0, RM1, RM2, RM3, RM4), XL-Paint (XLP),
  • XL-Paint MAX (MAX), SHIMC (SHC), Graph (ALL), APP View (APP),
  • Semi-Graphic logos Editor (SGE), Dir Logo Maker (DLM), Movie Maker (BKG, SHP),
  • BG9, G09, The Graphics Magician Picture Painter (SPC).
  • Improved decoding of all RAW and MIC, some RIP and FNT files.
  • Added APV extension for the AP3 format.
  • Created GNOME thumbnailer (for Linux file browser Nautilus).
  • You may drag&drop files to the FAILWin window.
  • GR8 wasn't registered in ImageMagick.

New in RECOIL 1.1.0 (May 11, 2015)

  • Fixed decoding of ILC, AP3, RIP, PIC, CPR, HIP and CIN.
  • Added support for MCH, IGE, 256, AP2, JGP, DGP, ESC, PZM, IST and RAW.
  • Created Windows thumbnail provider.
  • Fixed user interface issues in FAILWin.
  • Fixed compilation errors with the new libpng.
  • Updated installation for new ImageMagick.
  • Moved source code from SVN to Git.

New in RECOIL 1.0.1 (May 11, 2015)

  • Windows setup has been created. A coder for ImageMagick has been created.
  • MCP, GHG and HR2 formats are supported. Build process has been improved.