Ace Film
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* There are some examples in the [https://archive.org/details/ftpsites_arcade.demon.co.uk_2013.06.17 Arcade BBS Filebase] (may be [[Spark]]-compressed) | * There are some examples in the [https://archive.org/details/ftpsites_arcade.demon.co.uk_2013.06.17 Arcade BBS Filebase] (may be [[Spark]]-compressed) | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:54, 23 May 2024
[edit] Overview
Ace Film is an animation file format used on early RISC OS systems (file type D6A, AceFilm), allowing graphics created using Ace Computing's applications to be stored as a series of frames in a file, to be replayed layer using the Projector application. Applications used to generate Ace Film files included Tween, Mogul and Euclid.
[edit] Format details
All lengths and offsets are in bytes. Words are 4 bytes.
0x0: File length (4 bytes) 0x4: Title (12 bytes, ASCII, low bytes ignored, can contain spaces) 0x10: Offset into the file of data (data_offset) 0x14: 0x18: 0x1c: Number of colours?
Each frame is described by a data length followed by the data itself, then followed by the data length again, presumably to make it easy to traverse the file in both directions:
data_offset: length of data (including this word) (data_length) ... data_offset + data_length - 4: data_length
[edit] Sample files
- There are some examples in the Arcade BBS Filebase (may be Spark-compressed)
