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ComradeVlast<p>Looking for some more advanced techies to help me out here. I was browsing the files of old abandonware (as one does) and came across the .zym file format in a game called Gubble 2. Does anyone have any idea what this file format is? Is it something proprietary by the gubble devs? Something that just isn't used anymore? The only thing google brought up regarding .zym was some mods for quake.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techquestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techquestions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fileformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fileformats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abandonware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abandonware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oldtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oldtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
jonny (good kind)<p>literally who hurt genomics to make you all encode one specific kind of number as the ASCII characters from ! to ~ as an integer input to some logarithm function, but then others of you changed the function but kept encoding it as a single ASCII character ranging from -5 to 62 (???), and then later they decided that -5 to 62 was silly and so they changed that to 0-62 and throwing away half the original range for no reason, except actually it's 0-40 by convention.</p><p>did anyone consider "encoding it as a number"</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/DataStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataStandards</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FileFormats</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genomics</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. Again this year <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/librarycongress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>librarycongress</span></a></span> recommends <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/XML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XML</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EPUB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPUB</span></a> over <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDF</span></a>. (Scroll to I.ii.B.)<br><a href="https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/text.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">loc.gov/preservation/resources</span><span class="invisible">/rfs/text.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FileFormats</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Formats</span></a></p>
Adam ♿<p>Where do I see the file/format/disc header found in <a href="https://ia800200.us.archive.org/26/items/BMUG-TVRToo-Update/TVR%20Too%20Update.iso" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ia800200.us.archive.org/26/ite</span><span class="invisible">ms/BMUG-TVRToo-Update/TVR%20Too%20Update.iso</span></a> (<a href="https://archive.org/details/BMUG-TVRToo-Update" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/BMUG-TVRTo</span><span class="invisible">o-Update</span></a>)</p><p>It's not ISO9660 but I don't know the right keywords to search for much older CD formats.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FileFormats</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SoftwareHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareHistory</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SoftwareArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ReverseEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReverseEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p><p>Previously this asked: Does anyone recognise a file header of 42 44 AA 25? But I don't think this is the actual file header.</p>
Thorsted<p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/fileformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fileformats</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/moviemagic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moviemagic</span></a></p>
Thorsted<p>The 1993 battle for a portable document format was impressive. What would today look like if PDF didn't win? <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/fileformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fileformats</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/obsolete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsolete</span></a>. <a href="https://archive.org/details/MacWEEKV07N25/page/n45/mode/1up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/MacWEEKV07</span><span class="invisible">N25/page/n45/mode/1up</span></a></p>
fluffy 💜<p>fluffy rambles: In defense of WebP <a href="https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12693-In-defense-of-WebP" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beesbuzz.biz/blog/12693-In-def</span><span class="invisible">ense-of-WebP</span></a> <a href="https://plush.city/tags/FluffyRambles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FluffyRambles</span></a> <a href="https://plush.city/tags/FileFormats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FileFormats</span></a> <a href="https://plush.city/tags/Progress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Progress</span></a> <a href="https://plush.city/tags/Rants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rants</span></a> <a href="https://plush.city/tags/Webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Webp</span></a> <a href="https://plush.city/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a></p>
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