User:Halftheisland

About Me
I'm interested in all sorts of things - I have a broad, but not deep knowledge of all sorts of odd stuff. Unlike a few people I've seen here, I have no formal qualifications or professional background in library sciences or archival - I'm just a bloke who happens to be interested in this stuff. Consequently, you'll notice that my posts tend to be somewhat low on technical info. I guess my main role here will be to create a basic skeletal structure for as many formats as possible - brief description, links to specs (where available), useful software, etc. - and leave that for people smarter and more knowledgeable than myself to add to.

I have very limited time to do this at the moment, as a recent move has left me without internet access at home, so I do what I can in breaks from work. I apologise in advance for information put in the wrong place, incorrectly formatted pages, etc. --Halftheisland (talk) 20:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

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Talk to me here! I'll do my best to answer --Halftheisland (talk) 20:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

I realise the Mario Paint stuff seems kinda weird but I love stumbling across these weird little subcultures. --Halftheisland (talk) 20:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Specialization is not a vice! --Jason Scott (talk) 21:45, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Current To-Do
'''The directory structure of the Modland FTP has changed. /pub/trackers/ and /pub/players are now under /pub/software/.... time to change a whole bunch of articles''' - This should now be done for all existing pages with Modland links

Audio: Bringing over the list of file formats from UnExoticA DONE

Adding basic info to PSF and daughter formats. DONE

Disambiguation pages for RAW (RAW (Adlib), RAW (Sample) DONE

Investigate Jeskola Buzz clones - Psycle, Buzztard, Jacker, libzzub, Armstrong, Buzz RMX, Neil, Sunvox

add stuff from here - http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Browse

and here - http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Category:File_formats

and here - http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Main_Page

loads of potentially useful stuff here - http://amigan.1emu.net/links/

more amiga stuff - http://lclevy.free.fr/amiga/formats.html

Find out the correct place for Microsoft Office Themes (THMX) - doesn't seem like they belong in Document

and the same for Microsoft Access Record-Locking Information (LACCDB)

Microsoft InfoPath formats XSN - Web Brower Form Template (2010), Filler Form Template (2010), Web Brower Form Template (2007), Filler Form Template (2007), Form Template (2003)

The sample formats supported by Imago Wave are interesting - I'm familiar with WAV and RAW but not IIF and DP3

Veering away from audio for a while, I wonder if there are any extant dumps / format documentation for the IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer, IBM Electronic Selectric Composer or IBM Mag Card Selectric Composer

Dig out references for the various MED formats (Music Editor / OctaMED / MED Soundstudio (win & amiga)

Add info from here ("Documentation for the reverse-engineered .tsi file format used by Native Instrument's Traktor Pro 2.x for storing Controller Mappings") to the appropriate format page.

And here ("Customising Sonar's SFZ Files"), and

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/ARM_Binaries -- put this in the right place at some point

Tracker stuff

 * Find out if any trackers other than DigiTracker and FastTracker 2 produce .xm files and how they can be identified.
 * Add compression table / extensions to Open MODPlug Tracker (.mdbz, .mdgz, .mdz, .mdr)
 * ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/documents/format_documentation/MaxTracker%20v1.0A%20(.mod).txt - is there any difference between this and standard Protracker .mod format?
 * ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/documents/format_documentation/MikMod%20Unitrk%20(.uni).txt - not sure where this belongs

Musical Notation stuff
Not sure yet where (or if) a lot of these belong in the ontology, just trying to get a sense of scale.


 * Philip's Music Writer

XML

 * MusiCat (Music Catalog)

Audio

 * http://amp.dascene.net/ -- Amiga Music Preservation
 * http://helllabs.org/tracker-history/ - Tracker History Graphing Project
 * http://www.rarewares.org/index.php - possibly of some interest, lots of encoders and things
 * http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/notationformats.html
 * http://www.extractor.ru/articles/electronic_arts_audio_file_formats_description - Electronic Arts Audio File Formats Description
 * http://www.msx.org/wiki/Music_replayer_routines
 * http://cheesetracker.sourceforge.net/ CheeseTracker
 * http://www.gnu.org/software/octal/ GNU Octal
 * http://buzz-like.sourceforge.net/ VioLet Composer
 * http://www.dcee.net/Files/Programm/Sound/ a whole bunch of stuff
 * http://maxheadroom.no-ip.com/ay/formats.php Some more Spectrum audio formats
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20100726222137/http://zxdocs.fatal.ru/ Looks like it might have info on a bunch of Spectrum stuff
 * https://code.google.com/p/sm-ssc/wiki/Simfile -- StepMania simfiles
 * https://code.google.com/p/stepmania/source/browse/Songs/StepMania%205/Goin'%20Under/Goin'%20Under.ssc -- sample StepMania SSC file
 * http://bemani.wikia.com/wiki/Simfile -- some bemani simfiles
 * http://gonze.com/playlists/ -- playlist formats
 * http://audiocogs.org/codecs/ -- JavaScript-based audio decoding
 * http://www.ccarh.org/publications/books/cm/vol/12/ -- Computing in Musicology
 * http://adlib.wave460.net/trackers.html - loadsa trackers
 * http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.wilenius/fmking.htm - FM-Kingtracker
 * ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/documents/format_identifiers.txt - Format Identifiers
 * ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/documents/adlib_formats.txt - Adlib Formats
 * ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/documents/format_documentation/ - Format Documentation (loads of it!)
 * http://www.astercity.net/~malf/trackers.html - Some adlib trackers here
 * http://adplug.sourceforge.net/ - AdPlug
 * http://archive.cs.uu.nl/pub/MIDI/DOC/Music-Formats
 * http://dhs.nu/files.php?t=digieditor - a bunch of Atari ST/TT/Falcon trackers
 * http://amigamusic.tripod.com/index.html - Amiga Music Collection
 * http://www.anttilehtonen.net/amigamusic/ - Amiga Music Collection 2009 Edition
 * http://asle.free.fr/prowiz/- Prowizard for PC
 * https://lithcore.cn/2318 - PC98 PMD music file format
 * https://sfzformat.com/ - loads of info on the SFZ virtual musical instrument format

Documents

 * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj712081(v=prot.20).aspx - Microsoft Technical Documents
 * http://www.tamurajones.net/OfficeFileFormats.xhtml - Office File Formats

Games

 * https://github.com/DC37/Super-Mario-Paint - Super Mario Paint
 * http://hitmen.c02.at/files/yagcd/yagcd/ - Yet Another Gamecube Documentation (particularly sections on file formats)
 * http://www.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/
 * http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jedwin/baldur.html - The Infinity Engine File Format Hacking Project
 * http://www.wotsit.org/list.asp?fc=9 - Wotsit.org - Game Files
 * https://blog.ersan.io/2020/12/30/cracking-age-of-wushus-chat-log-encoding/ - cracking Age of Wushu's chat log encoding

Retrocomputing

 * http://amos.pspuae.com/ - AMOS Factory
 * http://alvyn.sourceforge.net/amos_file_formats.html - AMOS file formats
 * http://www.amigacoding.com/index.php/AMOS:File_Formats - as above
 * http://www.amigacoding.com/index.php/Main_Page
 * http://atariki.krap.pl/index.php/Kategoria:Formaty_plik%C3%B3w - Atari file formats (Polish)
 * http://www.devrs.com/gb/hmgd/supp.html - Harry Mulder's Gameboy Development: Support
 * http://simonowen.com/samdisk/formats/ a bunch of disk image formats
 * http://speccy.info SpeccyWiki (Russian)
 * http://oldmachinery.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/panasonic-jr200u-tape-file-format.html -- Panasonic JR200U tape file format
 * http://oldmachinery.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/panasonic-jr200u-tape-wave-generation.html -- Panasonic JR200u tape wave generation
 * http://yescrew.atari.org/eng/products.htm
 * ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/amiga/aminet/docs/ - Aminet docs
 * http://www.amiga-stuff.com/crunchers-id.html - Overview of used IDs for crunched files
 * http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/advancedComputerDesign/acd_format.txt - Documentation of the ACD UCSD III file format
 * http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ampex/Recording_Media_Archiving_Attributes_Nov79.pdf - AMPEX Corporation report from 1979 on archival of magnetic storage media
 * https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1471 - details the file format for the geoWrite WYSIWYG text editor for C64
 * http://recoil.sourceforge.net/ - Retro Computer Image Library
 * https://www.oocities.org/eiennarufuyu/mmd.html - notes on MMD format

Other / Oddities

 * http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ - loads of format info, mostly for 3D models
 * http://grompe.org.ru/
 * http://home.wtal.de/mrohles/dopuscfg/SupportedFiletypes.txt
 * http://vault.digitalmzx.net/index.php - MegaZeux seems to have a number of its own file formats and utilities for conversion
 * http://beast.testbit.eu/ BEAST
 * The various OpenZIM file formats - ZIM, ZIM/4, Zeno
 * abcm2ps format file format
 * http://www.beilharz-family.de/software/lisaft.shtml -- Logos 4, Libronix, Santa Fe standard (all appear to be related to Biblical references)
 * http://www.beilharz-family.de/software/tntmpdconvert.shtml -- converts Wycliff e.V to TntMPD, apparently
 * http://publications.samsungsecurity.co.uk/?id=samsungtotalsecuritysolutions2012 -- Samsung product numbering rules
 * https://github.com/JRHeaton/GJB-File-Format -- GJB File Format
 * http://raspberrydebacle.com/this-may-be-the-most-useless-thing-i-have-ever-done-and-ive-seen-at-least-one-episode-of-allo-allo/ - A Sketch Towards a Taxonomy of Meta-Desserts
 * http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/016136.html#016136 -- contains some interesting discussion on physical type
 * http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/navigating-sticky-situation -- navigational charts from the Marshall Islands
 * http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/ - massive amounts of samples of all sorts of different media files
 * https://www1.cs.fau.de/filepool/gruhn/pagefile.pdf -- Windows NT pagefile.sys analysis
 * http://www.obsoletemedia.org/welcome/donate/ -- Museum of Obsolete Media's wanted page, some interesting stuff here for physical media formats
 * https://github.com/3MFConsortium - 3MF Consortium specifications, sample files and documentation (3D printing)

Chinese Telegraph Code

 * http://www.scribd.com/doc/266247680/Chinese-telegram-1978
 * http://www.njstar.com/tools/telecode/
 * http://cryptiana.web.fc2.com/code/chinese_e.htm

Transport Related

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio - TETRA
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM-R - GSM-R
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC - Loads of standards for aviation

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