Turbo Packer

File Format
Name	Turbo Packer
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression Turbo Packer
Released	≤1990

Turbo Packer (including Turbo Packer Plus, which is apparently its commercial variant) is a file compression utility for Atari ST computers. It was developed by Wolfgang Mayerle, and published by Data Becker. Most of the information about it is in German.

It apparently supports transparent file decompression.

Identification

According to the Ancient software, files begin with ASCII "TPWM".

Software

• Ancient
• Turbo Packer Plus
  • At Atarimania
  • At AtariUpToDate

Sample files

• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/turboPacker/

Links

• https://www.stcarchiv.de/tos1990/10/turbo-packer-samt-quelltext