IFF
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Overview
IFF is a file format introduced by Electronic Arts on the Commodore Amiga computer. Its structure is similar to RIFF or PNG, using various self-contained chunks to contain different data.
Although IFF is most commonly used as an image format (using the file extension .iff), it can actually hold a lot of different data types. Some examples of IFF files are
Resources
- The original EA spec
- IFF chunk registry, defining all known chunks
- ReWiki has a page on IFF, including some details on the rare PBM variant of LBM
