IFF
From Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki
| Interchange File Format | |||||
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| Developer: | Electronic Arts, Commodore | ||||
| Header: | IFF | ||||
| Content: | PCM | ||||
| Instruments: | Intrinsic | ||||
Target Output
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| Released: | 1985-02-07 | ||||
| First Game: | ? | ||||
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Interchange File Format is the container file format created in 1985 by Electronic Arts in cooperation with Commodore for the Amiga platform to make a standard to make a file translation easier. It can contain music, graphics, text, etc., but it's mostly known as audio format, with other regular extension 8SVX.
This is a format of non-compressed audio, used mostly in Amiga games for sound effects. Later it was superseded by FLAC and WAV, so it's mostly obsolete for now, but some popular players still support it, and even some emulators (like VICE) support recording to it.
Players
(Category)
- DeliPlayer - Windows
- GoldWave - Windows
- IFF/8SVX input plugin - XMPlay
- Play SND - DOS
Editors
(Category)
- GoldWave - Windows
- MilkyTracker - Macintosh, Windows
Converters
(Category)
IFF to ?
- Fasttracker II - DOS - MOD, XM
- GoldWave - Windows - AAC, AIFF, AIFFC, AU, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, M4A, MP3, RAW, VOC, VOX, WAV, WMA, XAC
- MilkyTracker - Macintosh, Windows - MOD, XM
- Play SND - DOS - RAW, SND (Tandy), VOC, WAV
? to IFF
Games
(Category)
(Category)
| Released | Title | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| 1989-??-?? | It Came from the Desert (AMI) | Are You Still Mine |
| 1989-??-?? | Prince (AMI) | |
| 1992-??-?? | Locomotion: Kingsoft (AMI) | |
| 1994-??-?? | Gunship 2000 (CD32) |
How to Obtain
IFF files usually have to be extracted from game resource files, a process which changes for each game.
Links
- moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Interchange_File_Format_(IFF) - ModdingWiki.
- 1fish2.github.io/IFF/IFF%20docs%20with%20Commodore%20revisions/8SVX.pdf - Documentation of this format.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8SVX - Wikipedia.
