ACE
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
- For another "Ace" format, see Ace Film.
ACE is a compressed archive format. It was originally developed by Marcel Lemke, later by e-merge GmbH.
Related software includes Ace (for DOS, OS/2, and Windows console), UnAce, WinAce, XAce Plus, MacUnace, UnACE.DLL, ActiveACE, ACE Compression Library (ACL). At least one version of UnAce is open source.
Version 2 of the format introduced new compression schemes that are not supported by all ACE decompression software.
Split archives typically contains the extension .c<num><num>
, where <num>
is an integer that starts from 01
, e.g. .c01
.
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Identification
Files have 2a 2a 41 43 45 2a 2a
which corresponds to the ASCII "**ACE**" at offset 7.
Specifications
- ace12b.zip → TECHNOTE.DOC
Software
- ace12b.exe or ace12b.zip - Ace v1.2b (includes UnAce source code)
- Ace v2.6
- GPL unace
- Konvertor
- acefile (Python)
Sample files
- dexvert samples — archive/ace
- Search results of all files that matches the family "archive" and has "ace" as format - Discmaster.textfiles.com