Extract text from HAM files
To convert your HAM file to another format, you need XnView or other Raster Image software.
To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Bitmap Graphic" file type, you need software like XnView or a similar tool.
The .HAM filename extension usually creates confusion because it serves two completely distinct technical communities. Most historically significant is the Amiga Hold-And-Modify image format, a legacy raster graphic standard introduced by Commodore for the Amiga computer line. This format was a clever hardware workaround that allowed the display of up to 4096 colors (HAM6) or roughly 262,000 colors (HAM8) by modifying only one RGB component per pixel, rather than storing full color data. While revolutionary in the 1980s, these files are now practically useless on modern systems; they suffer from "color fringing" artifacts and cannot be opened by standard viewers like Windows Photos or macOS Preview. To view or edit these graphics today, you must convert them to a modern lossless format like PNG or TIFF to preserve the pixel art without compression artifacts.
Alternatively, a .HAM file may contain Amateur Radio signal data, often generated by Software Defined Radio (SDR) applications or logging software. These are typically raw binary dumps or proprietary logs recording frequency spectrums and signal captures. Users often struggle with these because they are not human-readable text. Converting these data files to WAV (for audio playback of the signal) or CSV (for data analysis) is usually required to make the information accessible outside of niche radio suites.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HAM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PNG, PAL, EGA, LBM, MCM, BDT and BCM files.
If you want to convert HAM file to MCM, BDT, BCM, EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, RUN or SH, you can use XnView or similar software from the "Legacy Amiga Raster Graphics" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to HAM, try XnView or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Amiga Raster Graphics" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HAM converter.