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PNG-supporting Games and Entertainment Applications
Games and Entertainment Applications with PNG Support
Applications listed here include games and game engines, screen savers, fractal generators, hobby
programs, and so forth. Most of them only read or only write PNG images.
As with the other PNG-applications pages, links to home WWW sites or to downloadable versions are
provided where known, but if a link is broken, check the location and see if an updated version is
available (and please tell Greg!). Relevant operating systems are printed in (parenthesized italics).
These are listed alphabetically, more or less:
● AdvanceMAME [Andrea Mazzoleni et al.] (DOS, Win32/SDL, Linux/SDL) - all versions? read/
write; MNG support (write-only) as of version 0.58.0; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a
"port of the MAME, MESS, and PacMAME emulators for [fixed-frequency monitors,] arcade
monitors and TVs, but also for normal PC monitors." PNG appears to be supported as a format
for certain game elements and for screenshots; MNG is supported as a "video" format for
recording gameplay. Versions 0.58.0 through 0.61.1 also included the zmng [and probably zpng]
recompression utility(ies); they are now known as AdvanceMNG and AdvancePNG and are part
of the AdvanceSCAN package, listed on the converters page.)
● AdvanceMENU [Andrea Mazzoleni et al.] (DOS, Win32/SDL, Linux/SDL) - version 1.9.0(?) and
later; read-only; MNG support; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a graphical front end for
AdvanceMAME, MAME, and other arcade emulators. It displays PNG images and MNG
animations as thumbnails for launching various games.)
● Aleph One [Jason McGuiness] (Win32) - all versions; read/write; uses libpng and zlib; freeware.
(This is a fractal generator with truecolor and multiprocessor support. It can read the images it
creates and therefore has some image-viewing capabilities.)
● ampsig [Cor and PCheese] (PHP/gd) - all versions; write-only; alpha support; requires gd,
libpng, and zlib; freeware with source. (This is a "dynamic signature generator," i.e., a webserverbased
tool that can generate a graphical, personalized signature block for attachment to forum
postings, etc. It is designed to connect to music players and thus include information about what
the owner is currently listening to, but it can also include simple information such as the time/
date, the server's uptime, the requestor's IP address, etc.)
● Art Wall [Ulead Systems] (Windows 3.x) - all versions; read-only; 1.5MB. (This is a screen
saver.)
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