Knowledge Adventure IMG files

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
ABENTEUER-49
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Knowledge Adventure IMG files

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Hello. This is my first post by the way.

I have recently looked at some of the Knowledge Adventure games from the early 90s, and I used the bms script from the QuickBMS site to extract some image files from one of the archives. These image files have the extension IMG and in a hex editor, they have the header LzH2.

I have found a way to extract them to BMP files using a utility named T.exe which was included with the game, but I am interested in a BMS script being written to extract and reimport into these IMG files.

I did some research on the internet about this format but I didn't find anything. The T.exe utility says ScapePic when you extract a file, again I searched for this and could not find anything so I assume it is proprietory.

I include in this post a sample image from the game which is called 3D Dinsoaur Adventure, and the T.exe utility, which runs in DOSBox. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it, as I have been thinking about this for a while.