IPF

File Format
Name	IPF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Disk Image Formats IPF

Overview

The Software Preservation Society (SoftPres, formerly known as CAPS, the Classical Amiga Preservation Society) have created their own (proprietary) hardware for dumping any kind of floppy disk from a standard PC floppy drive connected to the KryoFlux board. IPF is their (closed) binary format, which stores raw hardware flux transisition timings and is thus able to contain (almost) any encoding, sector format and copy protection that can be found in the wild.

References

• SoftPres homepage and KryoFlux homepage
• Download of a (closed-source) library for reading IPF files here
• MESS implementation of an IPF reader library
• official IPF decoder source code here
• Keir's documentation on the IPF format here (part of his Disk Utilities software)