Hamster archive - Revision history

Zzo38 at 19:35, 15 October 2021

2021-10-15T19:35:20Z

Zzo38: UTI

2021-10-15T09:29:04Z

UTI

Zzo38: Get rid of "Identification" section; it belongs in the article about HamsterSpeak, not this one

2021-10-11T08:41:46Z

Get rid of "Identification" section; it belongs in the article about HamsterSpeak, not this one

Dan Tobias at 04:22, 27 January 2020

2020-01-27T04:22:20Z

Zzo38: There is actually no specific extension for this format, so remove the .har which isn't commonly used (the actual extension varies depending on the application; there is no "neutral" extension).

2020-01-25T22:39:44Z

There is actually no specific extension for this format, so remove the .har which isn't commonly used (the actual extension varies depending on the application; there is no "neutral" extension).

Zzo38: Formats using Hamster archive as the container format should probably have separate articles, like .ZIP and DocFile are.

2018-09-14T14:39:32Z

Formats using Hamster archive as the container format should probably have separate articles, like .ZIP and DocFile are.

Jsummers at 15:09, 5 July 2017

2017-07-05T15:09:30Z

Zzo38: Identification of compiled HamsterSpeak programs

2017-07-01T19:42:34Z

Identification of compiled HamsterSpeak programs

Zzo38 at 18:34, 1 July 2017

2017-07-01T18:34:01Z

Zzo38: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=Archiving }} An archive format used in OHRRPGCE, TAVERN, and possibly others. == Identification == None. == Description == A Hamster archive consists o..."

2017-07-01T18:19:40Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=Archiving }} An archive format used in OHRRPGCE, TAVERN, and possibly others. == Identification == None. == Description == A Hamster archive consists o..."

New page

{{FormatInfo
|subcat=Archiving
}}

An archive format used in OHRRPGCE, TAVERN, and possibly others.

== Identification ==
None.

== Description ==
A Hamster archive consists of zero or more lumps concatenated together (with no delimiters or global header/footer), where a lump consists of the following three parts:
* Null-terminated ASCII filename
* PDP-endian 32-bit data size (measured in bytes)
* Data of this lump

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 }}
-An archive format used in [[OHRRPGCE]] and possibly other video game engines and/or other programs.
+An uncommon archive format used to store the data for some programs; see [[:Category:Hamster archive based formats]]. (The first program to use this format was probably [[OHRRPGCE]].)
 == Description ==
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 * PDP-endian 32-bit data size (measured in bytes)
 * Data of this lump

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 An archive format used in [[OHRRPGCE]] and possibly other video game engines and/or other programs.
 == Description ==
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 * Data of this lump
-[[Category:Game data files]]
+[[Category:Game data files]]<!-- unsure if this category really belongs; it is a general purpose format -->

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 }}
-An archive format used in OHRRPGCE and possibly other video game engines and/or other programs.
+An archive format used in [[OHRRPGCE]] and possibly other video game engines and/or other programs.
 == Identification ==

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 {{FormatInfo
 |subcat=Archiving
-|extensions={{ext|har}}, {{ext|rpg}}, {{ext|hs}}, {{ext|hsp}}, {{ext|tav}}
+|extensions={{ext|har}}
 }}
 An archive format used in OHRRPGCE, TAVERN, and possibly other video game engines.
 == Identification ==

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 }}
-An archive format used in OHRRPGCE, TAVERN, and possibly others.
+An archive format used in OHRRPGCE, TAVERN, and possibly other video game engines.
 == Extensions ==
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 * PDP-endian 32-bit data size (measured in bytes)
 * Data of this lump