TITLE.PIC

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The Title Picture
The games's title picture is held in the rather unimaginatively named "title.pic". It is about 18k in size, and this factors into being a 288 x 128 image. Because the game was released on the PC in 1988, it uses EGA mode, and hence is restricted in its number of colours. It actually uses the EGA 16-colour palette, hence the vibrancy of the title image.



Encoding
The image is encoded using a simple Vertical XOR coding scheme. The image starts at byte zero in the file. There is no header, no tail, and no meta information.

The above image wasn't captured by a screenshot, it was pulled directly from the file, run through a Vertical XOR Decoder and then stored as a PPM. Then the |PPM2GIF utility was used to turn it into a 4-bit GIF image.