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==Overview==
 
==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.
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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''' ('''Interchangeable Preservation Format''') is their (closed) binary format, which stores raw hardware flux transition timings and is thus able to contain (almost) any encoding, sector format and [[copy protection]] that can be found in the wild.
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.
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== Identification ==
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The documentation implies that IPF files start with "{{magic|CAPS}}" {{magic|0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0c}}.
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
* SoftPres [http://softpres.org/ homepage] and KryoFlux [http://kryoflux.com/ homepage]
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* SoftPres [http://softpres.org/ homepage] and KryoFlux [https://www.kryoflux.com/ homepage]
 
* Download of a (closed-source) library for reading IPF files [http://www.softpres.org/download here]
 
* Download of a (closed-source) library for reading IPF files [http://www.softpres.org/download here]
 
* MESS implementation of an IPF [http://git.redump.net/mame/tree/src/lib/formats/ipf_dsk.c reader library]
 
* MESS implementation of an IPF [http://git.redump.net/mame/tree/src/lib/formats/ipf_dsk.c reader library]
 
* official IPF decoder source code [http://www.kryoflux.com/download/ipfdec_source4.2.zip here]
 
* official IPF decoder source code [http://www.kryoflux.com/download/ipfdec_source4.2.zip here]
 
* Keir's documentation on the IPF format [https://github.com/keirf/Disk-Utilities/blob/master/ipfinfo/ipf.txt here] (part of his [https://github.com/keirf/Disk-Utilities Disk Utilities] software)
 
* Keir's documentation on the IPF format [https://github.com/keirf/Disk-Utilities/blob/master/ipfinfo/ipf.txt here] (part of his [https://github.com/keirf/Disk-Utilities Disk Utilities] software)
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* [http://info-coach.fr/atari/documents/_mydoc/IPF-Documentation.pdf IPF Documentation]

Revision as of 13:47, 8 November 2017

File Format
Name IPF
Ontology
Extension(s) .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 (Interchangeable Preservation Format) is their (closed) binary format, which stores raw hardware flux transition timings and is thus able to contain (almost) any encoding, sector format and copy protection that can be found in the wild.

Identification

The documentation implies that IPF files start with "CAPS" 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0c.

References

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