IFF

The “EA IFF-85” Repository

• IFF docs

  The original Electronic Arts IFF docs with some revisions from Commodore Business Machines.

  Thankfully, Commodore converted the docs from MacWrite to Word format – the *.doc files in this repository. I converted those to .docx (MS Word format), .pdf, and .rtf files.

  • EA IFF 85.pdf: “EA IFF 85” Standard for Interchange Format Files defines the IFF standard and explains the strategy of saving data in an extensible interchange format rather than dumping a program’s internal state in a fixed format.
  • IFF Quick Intro.pdf: A Quick Introduction to IFF is a quick introduction for programmers in the 1980’s.
  • ILBM.pdf: “ILBM” IFF Interleaved Bitmap defines the raster image format (interleaved bitplanes) that’s used heavily on the Commodore Amiga.
  • 8SVX.pdf: “8SVX” IFF 8-Bit Sampled Voice defines an 8-bit sampled sound format.
  • SMUS.pdf: “SMUS” IFF Simple Musical Score defines a simple musical score format.

• IFF source code

  A snapshot of AmigaOS C code for reading and writing IFF files.

• IFF retrospective

  Notes on the history of IFF.

• 64-bit IFF

  Sketches for 64-bit (and larger) IFF data sizes. Not adopted.

• IFF Standard docs in the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki

  • EA IFF 85 Standard
  • A Quick Introduction to IFF
  • IFF FORM and Chunk Registry

License

• Documentation & Specifications: Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
• Source Code: Released under the MIT License.

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