====== MGE ======

The MGE file format by [[Color Max Deluxe]] supports a custom palette, palette animation cycling, and run-length encoded or unpacked pixels, and is fully documented in the manual.

===== FORMAT =====

^ START ^ END ^ SIZE (HEX) ^ VALUES (HEX) ^
| 00000000 | | 01 | MGE resolution byte  00 = 320x200x16 >0 = BADRES |
| 00000001 | 00000011 | 10 | palette bytes 00-3F stuff into $FFB0-$FFBF |
| 00000012 | | 01 | montype 00 = RGB 01 = CMP |
| 00000013 | | 01 | compression flag 00 = compression FF = no compression |
| 00000014 | 00000033 | 20 | picture name zero terminated |
| 00000034 | | 01 | Cycle Delay 00-FF 00=fast |
| 00000035 | | 01 | Cycle Palette, left nibble = start palette number, right nibble = end palette number |
| 00000036 | to End Of File (EOF) | up to 32000 | bytes of bitmap data, cols * rows,  uncompressed <values> stream or  or RLE-compressed <count><value> pairs |

===== RTS =====
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