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FYI: 64-bit IFF in the wild: DSDIFF #1

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sh1boot opened this issue Jan 26, 2022 · 2 comments
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FYI: 64-bit IFF in the wild: DSDIFF #1

sh1boot opened this issue Jan 26, 2022 · 2 comments
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sh1boot commented Jan 26, 2022

Philips went ahead with a 64-bit IFF derivative with their DSDIFF format. I'm not sure if this is one case of wider use of this format, or if it's only ever used for DSD.

Identified with a FRM8 tag, and they kept the 16-bit padding.

Personally, I'd have padded to four bytes, because that makes the chunk IDs all appear at chunk-ID-sized alignment, which looks nice in hex dumps.

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1fish2 commented Jan 26, 2022

Very interesting! Also, I didn't know about the Library of Congress project.

I'll ask the LOC if they want to link to the full docs in this repo or at least the original doc with images.

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1fish2 commented Feb 4, 2022

I added DSDIFF FRM8 to the "64-bit IFF" page and refined the README.md and its GitHub Pages index.html counterpart, including links to the AmigaOS documentation wiki.

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