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The Amiga (EA) IFF format was adopted by Microsoft as RIFF (essentially the same format but with little-endian numbers for x86), which is the basis of WAV and A
by kps 5y ago
The Amiga (EA) IFF format was adopted by Microsoft as RIFF (essentially the same format but with little-endian numbers for x86), which is the basis of WAV and AVI, among others.
- Findecanor 5y agoIFF (Interchangeable File Format) is a container format that can contain different types of data. ILBM (InterLeaved BitMap) was the image encoding inside the IFF. The Amiga had bitplane-based graphics. The "interleaved" part was that an image was stored by line first, bitplanes second instead of one whole bitplane after the other. Games often used the "interleaved" graphics layout in memory because it allowed blitting a sprite with a single Blitter operation. (... and EA who made DPaint was a games studio first)