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Im looking for demoscene graphics or pixel art in the .PCX format (ZSoft or more). Where I can find and download. I tried google filetype:pcx without luck, doesn't give me anything. Are there any demoscene database with this file extension?
Thank you.

IrfanView can save PCX files.

Ok cool

@rudi what you are looking for is the ACE Demoscene Collection Volume 4y, hosted by Scene.org !

Contains tons of Amiga/PC (oldschool) graphics, and I'm sure most of them are in PCX/BMP 8 bit format.

It’s just 768 palette entries for the 256 colors and then just indexed raw data. Quite easy to make yourself if you need to.

thec: you're describing TGA. Your regular 256-color PCX file has a fixed size header, RLE compressed data and the 768 palette entries in the end IIRC. And there's also a version with 24-bit color that had something really funky going on with the way the compression is laid out.

norecess: thanks alot

Check this too: https://files.scene.org/search/?q=.pcx

You will find PCX files in the entries of many graphics competitions from mid-90s parties.

DOS days <3

I made a pcx optimizer at some point, available here: http://sol.gfxile.net/zip/pcxlite.zip, it loads pcx, reorganizes the palette for best compression and saves it out. Thus, you can also find pcx loading and saving code there.. should you need it.

You can load/save PCX files with GrafX2. Also, XnView (a multiplatform program similar to IrfanView) supports this format (among many others).

You should check out:
http://cd.textfiles.com/scenepixelg/
http://cd.textfiles.com/scene96-2/
http://artcity.bitfellas.org

I use these for mostly all of my retro-machines from 486 to p4:
PCX-Viewer: qview103 (DOS) / acdsee3 (WIN9X)
PCX-Editor: dpaint3 (DOS) / paintshoppro5 (WIN9X)

I used source savepcx.pas for encoding picture at vga grabber

GrafX2 has a repo with files in the various formats it supports, for testing: https://gitlab.com/GrafX2/pic-samples

I don't think the PCX files you'll find there are otherwise scene-related, though.