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The "EA IFF-85" (Interchange File Format) Repository
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The "EA IFF-85" Repository
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* **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](http://1fish2.github.io/IFF/IFF%20docs%20with%20Commodore%20revisions/EA%20IFF%2085.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](http://1fish2.github.io/IFF/IFF%20docs%20with%20Commodore%20revisions/IFF%20Quick%20Intro.pdf): **A Quick Introduction to IFF** is a quick introduction for programmers in the 1980's.
* [ILBM.pdf](http://1fish2.github.io/IFF/IFF%20docs%20with%20Commodore%20revisions/ILBM.pdf): **"ILBM" IFF Interleaved Bitmap** defines the raster image format (interleaved bitplanes) that's used heavily on the Commodore Amiga.
* [8SVX.pdf](http://1fish2.github.io/IFF/IFF%20docs%20with%20Commodore%20revisions/8SVX.pdf): **"8SVX" IFF 8-Bit Sampled Voice** defines an 8-bit sampled sound format.
* [SMUS.pdf](http://1fish2.github.io/IFF/IFF%20docs%20with%20Commodore%20revisions/SMUS.pdf): **"SMUS" IFF Simple Musical Score** defines a simple musical score format.

* **[IFF source code](https://github.com/1fish2/IFF/tree/master/IFF%20source%20code)**

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

* **[IFF retrospective](https://github.com/1fish2/IFF/blob/master/IFF%20retrospective.md)**

Notes on the history of IFF.

* **[64-bit IFF](https://github.com/1fish2/IFF/blob/master/64-bit%20IFF.md)**

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

* [IFF Standard](https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/IFF_Standard) docs in the **AmigaOS Documentation Wiki**
* [EA IFF 85 Standard](https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/EA_IFF_85_Standard_for_Interchange_Format_Files)
* [A Quick Introduction to IFF](https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/A_Quick_Introduction_to_IFF)
* **[IFF FORM and Chunk Registry](https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/IFF_FORM_and_Chunk_Registry)**