RECOIL is a viewer of pictures in native formats of classic computers: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST, Atari Falcon, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Macintosh 128K, MSX, Oric, SAM Coupé, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum.
RECOIL is available on Android, Windows, OS X, Linux and HTML 5 browsers.
Android application
The Android application is available in Google Play. It includes a file picker that lets you browse all directories on your device as well as ZIP archives.
Windows thumbnails
Use a *.msi installer that matches your Windows version (32-bit or 64-bit).
OS X Quick Look
Install as follows:
- Open recoil-3.4.0-osx.dmg.
- Drag RECOIL.qlgenerator to QuickLook.
- Re-log or run qlmanage -r.
GNOME thumbnails
Install recoil-2png first, then recoil-thumbnailer.
HTML 5 based viewer
Run right inside your browser.
RECOILWin - viewer for Windows
Get from a *.msi installer or the *.zip archive.
IrfanView plugin
RECOIL is included in the "Formats" IrfanView plugin.
Plugins for Windows viewers
The *.msi installer detects XnView, Imagine and Paint.NET and installs the corresponding RECOIL plugins.
ImageMagick (de)coder
ImageMagick is a multi-platform suite to manipulate bitmaps.
RECOIL includes a plugin for it. On Windows use *.msi, on Linux install from source code.
recoil2png
This is a portable command-line converter to PNG files. Available in *.msi, *.zip, *.deb, *.rpm.
Run the program from command line to see the syntax. Unless you specify the -o/--output option, the output filename will be constructed from the input filename with the extension changed to png.
Python bindings
Available here.