Hamster archive

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An archive format used in [[OHRRPGCE]] and possibly other video game engines and/or other programs.
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An uncommon archive format used to store the data for some programs; see [[:Category:Hamster archive based formats]]. (The first program to use this format was probably [[OHRRPGCE]].)
  
 
== Description ==
 
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* PDP-endian 32-bit data size (measured in bytes)
 
* PDP-endian 32-bit data size (measured in bytes)
 
* Data of this lump
 
* Data of this lump
 
[[Category:Game data files]]<!-- unsure if this category really belongs; it is a general purpose format -->
 

Latest revision as of 19:35, 15 October 2021

File Format
Name Hamster archive
Ontology
UTI com.hamsterrepublic.lumped

An uncommon archive format used to store the data for some programs; see Category:Hamster archive based formats. (The first program to use this format was probably OHRRPGCE.)

[edit] 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
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