Notice: This historic context page contains some archaic Adult material.
GRASP stands for "GRaphic Animation System for Professionals". The original GRASP toolkit allowed combining *.TXT script files, *.PIC (PC Paint) picture files, and *.FNT font files together into a single *.GL animation file, which could be displayed on a CGA monitor (and make sounds through the built-in computer speaker) when using the DOS runtime viewer "GRASPRT.EXE". Unfortunately, not all animators took caching and faster computers into consideration, so some animations (like many DOS games) will run too fast on Pentium computers.
More flexible then animated GIF files, a *.GL file is a container that is more analogous to a customized Power Point presentation (one file can contain several separately launchable scripts, which will allow the file's contents to be presented in different manners, or in an organized structure like an electronic magazine). Over time the GRASP Toolkits supported EGA/VGA , and expanded the file types that could be wrapped into the *.GL file. The updated runtime viewers were fully backwards compatible (except when displaying a few ancient first generation CGA files). This ability made it at the time the most popular PC program for distributing animated amateur adult content. GRASP's heyday was the late 80's / early 90's, after which this primarily DOS program fell to the wayside.
A few contending animation programs using different file formats appeared late in the DOS era (although it should be noted that these programs were still less capable than those found on most other contemporary computer platforms, such as the Commodore Amiga), most notably those using the file extensions *.ANI and *.FLI. However although in the end the *.FLI extension surpassed the *.GL extension as the animators darling (thanks to the heavily promoted Autodesk Animator program), editing and viewing of actual video clips was by then becoming viable on PCs, and so for the typical home computer user (the overwhelmingly artistic Amiga computer users being the longest holdouts), composing animation of any type was soon sidelined.
Quite a number of amateur produced adult GRASP files were created during the DOS era. Creating these files is not as simple as shoving a stack of photos into a scanner's document feeder. Most computer animation at the time was created on the artist friendly Commodore Amiga computer, and DOS *.GL files required both a lot of fiddling and the more expensive PC to produce. The payoff was good for Sysops (owners/managers) of Bulletin Board Systems though, as having DOS adult animation for downloading (the Inernet and accompanying plethora of Internet Porn was years away) attracted new subscribers who had recently acquired cast-off business PCs. Some adult animations were reformatted as free traffic-driving BBS advertisements, and released into wide circulation (multiple examples of which have been gathered below).
Sex was in the forefront of the minds of young computer geeks, and even watching brief low resolution adult animations was alluring (file size had to be kept small due to existing PC disk capacity and modem speed limitations). The only practical alternative at the time was to rent a blurry adult videotape from a video rental store (seriously, many family video rental stores featured a special "adult" section), at which it was always a possibility that you could embarrassingly run into your boss or mother. These GRASP animations could be download in private at any hour from a BBS, and then kept for as long as you wanted without having to worry about any late return fees Be Kind... Rewind
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The below adult animation is an example of a GRASP file that includes multiple script choices. Use the command " GRASPRT ORGASM BLIND " to run one script, and " GRASPRT ORGASM DILDO " to run another.
GRASP files do not have to be passive experiences. The below adult animations are examples of how the interactive capability of GRASP files were used to create Digital Magazines before the Internet.
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