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Format

Dr. Halo Image Palette

Summary

Name
Dr. Halo Image Palette
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1186
Format type
Image (Raster)
Description
The Dr. Halo Image Palette stores colour palette information for the Dr. Halo Image Data format. Having a separate colour palette file aloows the ability to change the stored colours of an image without re-encoding the image data.
File extensions
pal
Submitted by
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Dr. Halo Image Palette

Description
BOF: 'AH'{4} 0x0A00
Provenance
Note, bytes 0x0F, 0x11, and 0x13 are likely to always be 00 as according to the file structure described here: http://www.fileformat.info/format/drhalo/egff.htm, each represents the larger half of a 32 bit (WORD) value representing a value that can only have up to 256 values - MaxRed, MaxGreen, MaxBlue, e.g. FF00 = 256. This could be used to strengthen the signature in the event of accidental clashes

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
4148{4}0A00
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V94

    Release date
    17 September 2018
    • Added format

      Dr. Halo Image Palette: Full entry added.

    • Added signature

      Dr. Halo Image Palette: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.