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Forgotten image formats worth knowing

2021-11-10 00:00:00

I recently rediscovered the virtues of certain Amiga file formats, but Ernie Smith has me beat when it comes to format archeology: 10 forgotten image formats.

Originally developed by AT&T and spun off into its own company in the late 1980s, TGA was one of the first file formats capable of "true color" with the help of its hardware-based image-processing tools. As the Library of Congress notes, it was even capable of transparency effects, a big deal for its time. "Truevision went on to pioneer the desktop digital video editing industry with the introduction of the Targa videographics card in 1987 that would run in a PC," the IEEE Computer Society wrote of Truevision's efforts. "In that same year, NewTek announced its Amiga-based video capture board, the Video Toaster, but didn't actually release it until 1990, so Targa truly was the first."

Putting TIFF in there is some good print/imaging nerd trolling.
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