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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Audio and Music
|extensions={{ext|dwd}}, {{ext|dwm}}
|released=1994
}}
DiamondWare Sound Toolkit was an SDK for the creation of sound files used in games in the early 1990's by Keith Weiner & Erik Lorenzen<ref>https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131602/programming_digitized_sound_on_the_.php</ref>. Sold through MVP Software.

==Format Information==
DWD (sounds) & DWM (music) are propriety formats for Diamondware's SDK<ref>https://archive.org/details/DiamondWaresSoundToolKit_1020</ref><ref>https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102680662</ref>. They seem to be derived from [[Creative_Voice_File|VOC]] and [[MIDI]]<ref>https://github.com/Yagotzirck/quiver_ripper</ref>.

===Format Details===

DWD Specification<ref>http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/mxlibs/dwstk.zip</ref>:

<pre>
Byte # Description
------ -----------
00-22 "DiamondWare Digitized\n\0"
23 1A (EOF to abort printing of file)
24 Major version number
25 Minor version number
26-29 Unique sound ID (checksum XOR timestamp)
30 Reserved
31 Compression type (0=none)
32-33 Sampling rate (in Hz)
34 Number of channels (1=mono, 2=stereo)
35 Number of bits per sample (8, 16)
36-37 Absolute value of largest sample in file
38-41 length of data section (in bytes)
42-45 Number of samples (16-bit stereo would be 4 bytes/sample)
46-49 *Offset of data section from start of file (in bytes)
50-53 Reserved for future expansion (markers)
??-?? Future expansion (heed the 2 offsets, above!)
</pre>

== References ==
<references/>

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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/audio/diamondWareDigitized/
+* {{DexvertSamples|audio/diamondWareDigitized}}
 == References ==
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 ===Format Details===
 DWD Specification<ref>http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/mxlibs/dwstk.zip</ref>:
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         ??-??   Future expansion (heed the 2 offsets, above!)
 </pre>
 == References ==
 <references/>

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-DiamondWare Sound Toolkit was an SDK for the creation of sound files used in games in the early 1990's by Keith Weiner & Erik Lorenzen<ref>https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131602/programming_digitized_sound_on_the_.php</ref>. Sold through MVP Software.
+DiamondWare Sound Toolkit<ref>https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/audition/3/audition_3_help.pdf#page=252</ref> was an SDK for the creation of sound files used in games in the early 1990's by Keith Weiner & Erik Lorenzen<ref>https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131602/programming_digitized_sound_on_the_.php</ref>. Sold through MVP Software.
 ==Format Information==