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EA continued through 2000+ to use a file format that had its roots in IFF, though a bit more advanced.

• chubot 11y ago
  Where was it used? I worked there from 2002-2004 and I don't recall it being used, though I don't doubt it was used somewhere. The teams were pretty silo'd. My experience there was mostly memory dumps that were byte swapped in ad hoc ways, sometimes on the tool side and sometimes at runtime. I always tell people the story of the 8000 line file with 2 functions. 4000 lines to read a data structure, and 4000 lines to write it... all done with for loops, and fread/fwrite.