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Latest revision as of 04:06, 5 February 2026
- For another "Ace" format, see Ace Film.
ACE is a compressed archive format. It was originally developed by Marcel Lemke, later by e-merge GmbH.
Related software includes Ace (for DOS, OS/2, and Windows console), UnAce, WinAce, XAce Plus, MacUnace, UnACE.DLL, ActiveACE, ACE Compression Library (ACL). At least one version of UnAce is open source.
Version 2 of the format introduced new compression schemes that are not supported by all ACE decompression software.
Split archives typically contains the extension .c<num><num>, where <num> is an integer that starts from 01, e.g. .c01.
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[edit] Identification
Files have 2a 2a 41 43 45 2a 2a which corresponds to the ASCII "**ACE**" at offset 7.
[edit] Specifications
- ace12b.zip → TECHNOTE.DOC
[edit] Software
- ace12b.exe or ace12b.zip - Ace v1.2b (includes UnAce source code)
- Ace v2.6
- GPL unace
- Konvertor
- acefile (Python)
[edit] Sample files
- dexvert samples — archive/ace
- Search results of all files that matches the family "archive" and has "ace" as format - Discmaster.textfiles.com
