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The Adventures of Willy Beamish bitmap format.

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First post, by Peter Swinkels

Posted on 2026-09-12, 12:52

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With the help of a handy tool called Librarian ( http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/project_s … rarian/release/ ) I extracted the resources from The Adventures of Willy Beamish resource files and had a look at the *.bmp files.

1A description what is known about the Dynamix Bitmap format used by The Adventures of Willy Beamish.
2
3Year: 1991
4Version: PC floppy version - unknown version number
5
6[Bitmap]
7Extension: *.bmp
8
9Layout:
10Description:	Type:		Contents:
11signature 	4 BYTES		{42h, 4Dh, 50h, 3Ah} ("BMP:")
12length		BE-WORD		Data length. (Equal to filesize - 8.)
13padding		BYTE		Null.
14block marker	5 BYTES		{80h, 49h, 4Eh, 46h, 3Ah} ("?INF:")
15unknown		BYTES		UNKNOWN.
16Footer		WORD		Null.

It's not much but I have no idea how to untangle what appears to be RLE compressed data. It also appears to be a format not used by many other Dynamix games as far as I can tell.

Oh well. 😀

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