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)

Chat
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
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

Work on something similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Compact_TOC

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)

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)

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.

XML

 * MusiCat (Music Catalog)

Misc

 * http://projects.raphnet.net/ - players for PSF, SPC and GSF
 * http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/ - massive amounts of samples of all sorts of different media files
 * https://github.com/DC37/Super-Mario-Paint - Super Mario Paint
 * 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.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/
 * http://grompe.org.ru/
 * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj712081(v=prot.20).aspx - Microsoft Technical Documents
 * http://www.tamurajones.net/OfficeFileFormats.xhtml - Office File Formats
 * http://www.amigacoding.com/index.php/Main_Page
 * http://home.wtal.de/mrohles/dopuscfg/SupportedFiletypes.txt
 * http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jedwin/baldur.html - The Infinity Engine File Format Hacking Project
 * http://hitmen.c02.at/files/yagcd/yagcd/ - Yet Another Gamecube Documentation (particularly sections on file formats)
 * http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ - loads of format info, mostly for 3D models
 * http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/notationformats.html
 * http://atariki.krap.pl/index.php/Kategoria:Formaty_plik%C3%B3w - Atari file formats (Polish)
 * http://www.wotsit.org/list.asp?fc=9 - Wotsit.org - Game Files
 * 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

AMOS

 * 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

Atari

 * http://yescrew.atari.org/eng/products.htm

Trackers

 * 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

Amiga

 * 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
 * ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/amiga/aminet/docs/ - Aminet docs

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