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*[[8-Bit Sampled Voice|8SVX]] audio sample data | *[[8-Bit Sampled Voice|8SVX]] audio sample data | ||
*[[Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File|SX2]] Propellerhead Reason NN-XT patches | *[[Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File|SX2]] Propellerhead Reason NN-XT patches | ||
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Some other formats are largely or heavily influenced by the IFF standard, but are not compatible. These include, for example: | Some other formats are largely or heavily influenced by the IFF standard, but are not compatible. These include, for example: | ||
*Erlang BEAM compiled modules<ref>http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/beam_lib.html</ref><ref>http://www.erlang.se/~bjorn/beam_file_format.html</ref>: Uses 4 byte alignment instead of 2 byte, and the root chunk has a different ID (<code>FOR1</code> instead of <code>FORM</code>) | *Erlang BEAM compiled modules<ref>http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/beam_lib.html</ref><ref>http://www.erlang.se/~bjorn/beam_file_format.html</ref>: Uses 4 byte alignment instead of 2 byte, and the root chunk has a different ID (<code>FOR1</code> instead of <code>FORM</code>) | ||
Revision as of 21:00, 20 July 2013
Overview
IFF (Interchange File Format) is a file format introduced by Electronic Arts on the Commodore Amiga computer. Its structure is similar to RIFF or PNG, using various self-contained chunks to contain different data.
Although IFF is most commonly used as an image format (using the file extension .iff), it can actually hold a lot of different data types. Some examples of IFF files are
- ILBM Interleaved bitmap image
- XMI XMidi music files
- 8SVX audio sample data
- SX2 Propellerhead Reason NN-XT patches
- ANIM
Some other formats are largely or heavily influenced by the IFF standard, but are not compatible. These include, for example:
- Erlang BEAM compiled modules[1][2]: Uses 4 byte alignment instead of 2 byte, and the root chunk has a different ID (
FOR1instead ofFORM) - Microsoft's RIFF and RIFX formats are based on IFF (RIFF uses little-endian byte order instead, and the root chunk is called
RIFFinstead ofFORM) - Apple's AIFF and AIFC formats are similar to IFF/RIFF as well
- Maya IFF
References
Resources
- The original EA spec
- IFF chunk registry, defining all known chunks
- IFF Source Code
- REWiki: .IFF
- IFF File Format Summary
