Hamster archive

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

Revision as of 19:42, 1 July 2017

File Format
Name Hamster archive
Ontology
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
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