Hamster archive

File Format
Name	Hamster archive
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Hamster archive
Extension(s)	.har, .rpg, .hs, .hsp, .tav

An archive format used in OHRRPGCE, TAVERN, and possibly others.

Extensions

• .har - Generic Hamster archive file
• .rpg - OHRRPGCE
• .hs - Compiled HamsterSpeak program
• .hsp - Compiled HamsterSpeak program
• .tav - TAVERN story file

Identification

None in general.

A compiled HamsterSpeak program will start with "HS", followed by three null bytes, two variable bytes (these are part of the lump data size; see below), and then the ASCII text "HamsterSpeak".

Description

A Hamster archive consists of zero or more lumps concatenated together (with no delimiters or global header/footer), where a lump consists of the following three parts:

• Null-terminated ASCII filename
• PDP-endian 32-bit data size (measured in bytes)
• Data of this lump