Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IC2 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert IC2 to another file type
To convert IC2 Graphics files to another format, you need RECOIL or other Raster Image software.
Convert a file to IC2
To convert other file formats to the "Atari ST Image File" file type, you need software like RECOIL or a similar tool.
About IC2 files
The .ic2 file format is a proprietary raster image format originally used by vintage Atari computer systems to store Medium Resolution Imagic Graphics. These files are obsolete, closed formats that modern operating systems and standard web browsers cannot open natively. Users typically encounter .ic2 files when extracting graphic assets from classic retro games, browsing archived vintage floppy disk images, or working with retro-computing emulators. The primary disadvantage of the .ic2 format is its complete lack of modern software support. You cannot easily view or share these images without installing specialized retro-computing viewers or dedicated Atari emulators. To use these graphics today, you must convert them to standard, widely supported web formats like PNG or JPG. Converting to PNG is highly recommended because it preserves the pixel-perfect quality and original limited color palette of the Atari hardware without introducing compression artifacts. Because the format is proprietary and requires specific decoding algorithms tailored to legacy hardware bitplanes, standard online converters frequently fail to process it. Our analysis engine can inspect the file, and if a recognizable embedded pixel structure is detected, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your IC2 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert IC2 file to , you can use RECOIL or similar software from the "Retro Atari Graphics Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to IC2, try RECOIL or another comparable tool in the "Retro Atari Graphics Storage" category.
The IC2 Converter Story
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 IC2 converter.