tried to open the .bmp file on a machine running windows 95 via paint program. came back "not enough memory" which must be mistaken. windows imaging program on that machine would open it though ...

Common image files include raster graphics such as Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), JPEG File Interchange Format, Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Tag Image File Format (TIFF) and Windows Bitmap.

I've got a game I'm writing that's a fullscreen console application. Problem is the mouse cursor in a fullscreen console window blows ass, so I figure it shouldn't be too hard to just draw my own ...