Quantum compressed archive

File Format
Name	Quantum compressed archive
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Quantum compressed archive
Extension(s)	.q, .pak
Released	≤1995

Quantum compressed archive is a archive format developed by Cinematronics corporation. It runs on a normal computer, not a quantum computer.

Identification

Files begin with bytes 'D' 'S'. The next byte (the major version number) is probably always 0x00.

Software

• quant097.zip (old MS-DOS and Windows binaries)

Sample files

• http://cd.textfiles.com/1000games/ → *.PAK

Related formats

Some Microsoft CAB files used the same "Quantum" compression scheme as this format.

Links

• Quantum compression format
• Wikipedia: Quantum compression