DiamondWare Digitized
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
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[1]. Sold through MVP Software.
Format Information
DWD (sounds) & DWM (music) are propriety formats for Diamondware's SDK[2][3]. They seem to be derived from VOC and MIDI[4].
Format Details
DWD Specification[5]:
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!)
References
- ↑ https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131602/programming_digitized_sound_on_the_.php
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/DiamondWaresSoundToolKit_1020
- ↑ https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102680662
- ↑ https://github.com/Yagotzirck/quiver_ripper
- ↑ http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/mxlibs/dwstk.zip
