T64

File Format
Name	T64
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Disk Image Formats T64
Extension(s)	.t64
PRONOM	fmt/820

T64 is a tape image format for the Commodore 64, originally associated with the C64s emulator.

Identification

The first 32 bytes of the file contain an ASCII signature that begins with "C64". Unfortunately, there are several variants of it, such as "C64S tape file", "C64S tape image file", and "C64 tape image file".

At offset 32 is a version number that should be either 0x00 0x01 or 0x01 0x01.

See also

• Commodore data cassette
• Commodore BASIC tokenized file

Specifications

• T64 (Tape containers for C64s)
• Emulator File Formats (Power64)
• The emulator file formats (VICE)

Software

• DirMaster (Windows binary) can read T64 files
• cbmconvert (-t option)
• fvcbm can list the contents of T64 files

Sample files

• ftp://ftp.cbm8bit.com/programming/basic/ → *.t64.gz
• Many of the files at the C-64 Scene Database