MSK Format

Intel byte order



Information from File Format List 2.0 by Max Maischein.



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The MSK files are mask files used by the Autodesk Animator and Animator Pro

packages. Two types of MSK files exist. The Animator Pro version is simply a PIC

file with the depth 1; A MSK file created by the original Animator is exactly

8000 bytes long. There is no file header or other control information in the

file. It contains the image bit map, 1 bit per pixel, with the leftmost pixels

packed into the high order bits of each byte. The size of the image is fixed at

320x200. The image is stored left-to-right, top-to-bottom.



EXTENSION:MSK

OCCURENCES:PC

PROGRAMS:Autodesk Animator

SEE ALSO:PIC,FLIc

