List of RISC OS filetypes

This is a sub-article to RISC OS.

RISC OS filetypes use metadata to distinguish file formats. Some common file formats from other systems are mapped to filetypes by the MimeMap module.[1] Such mapping was previously handled by DosMap.[1]

The MimeMap module maps RISC OS filetypes to and from MIME content types, dotted filename extensions and Apple's Uniform Type Identifiers.[2][3]

Requests for new filetype allocations for all RISC OS versions are handled centrally by RISC OS Open.[4]

RISC OS filetypes

Filetypes were originally classified by Acorn into distinct ranges:

Hexadecimal rangeDesignation Use
Start End
000
0FF
 User Unallocated[5]
100
3FF
 Non-commercial software Allocated[5]
400
9FF
 Commercial software Allocated[5]
A00
AFF
 Acorn Reserved[5]
B00
DFF
 Commercial software Allocated[5]
E00
FFF
 Generic data Allocated[5]

User

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000–0FF
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Connected party Mapped equivalent
004[5]
 Wild Vision Hawk V10
006[5]
 Wild Vision Hawk V12
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Connected party Mapped equivalent

Non-commercial software

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100–3FF
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Registrant or
connected party		 Mapped equivalent
300[6]
 TimeStep ImProcess
371[6]
 RayShade RGB
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Registrant or
connected party		 Mapped equivalent

Commercial software

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400–9FF, B00–DFF
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Registrant or
connected party		 Mapped equivalent
601[6]
 CCIR 601 Comité consultatif international pour la radio
690[6]
 Translator Clear John Kortink
691[6]
 Atari ST DEGAS .pi1, .pi2, .pi3
695
 GIF GIF File
697[6]
 PC Paintbrush ZSoft Corporation .pcx
698[6]
 RayShade RAW Steve Koren .qrt
699[6]
 RayShade Mark Terrence VandeWettering .pic
69D[6]
 Targa Truevision TGA Truevision .tga, .vda
7A0[6]
 TimeStep satellite image
BA6
 Excel Microsoft Excel Microsoft .xls
BBC[5]
 BBC ROM BBC ROM (ROMFS) Acornsoft
BDF
 Firewrkz Fireworkz Colton Software .fwk
BE0
 Recordz Fireworkz Database File Colton Software
BE1
 Resultz Fireworkz Spreadsheet File Colton Software
BE8[6]
 PhotoCD Eastman Kodak .pcd
C1C
 Workz Fireworkz Word Processor Colton Software
C1D
 FwrkzTem Fireworkz Template File Colton Software .fwt
C1E
 FwrkzTem Fireworkz Command File Colton Software .fwc
C25[5]
 AWord Acorn Advance Wordprocessor Acornsoft
C26[5]
 ASheet Acorn Advance Spreadsheet Acornsoft
C27[5]
 ADBase Acorn Advance Database Acornsoft
C28[5]
 AGraph Acorn Advance Graph Acornsoft
C32
 RTF Rich Text Format .rtf
JPEG JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group .jpg, .jpeg
CAE[5]
 HPGLPlot Hewlett-Packard graphics language Hewlett-Packard
CAF[5]
 IGES IGES graphics
CDD
 Ovation Ovation DTP File
CE5[5]
 TeX TeX
D21
 PDCmdFile PipeDream Command File Colton Software .pd
DB0[5]
 Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus 1-2-3 .wk1
DB1[5]
 DBaseIndex DBase index
DB2[5]
 DBaseII DBase II
DB3[5]
 DBaseIII DBase III
DB4[5]
 SuperCalc SuperCalc III
DDC
 Archive Zip (SparkFS/ArcFS) David Pilling/Mark Smith .zip
DDE
 PDream PipeDream Colton Software .pd
DE2[6]
 ProArtisan Clares Micro Supplies
DEA[5]
 DXF Drawing Exchange Format .dxf
DFA[6]
 Watford digitiser Watford Electronics
DFE[5]
 CSV Comma-separated values .csv
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Registrant or
connected party		 Mapped equivalent

Acorn reserved

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A00–AFF
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Mapped equivalent
ADB[5]
 New Font Outline font
AE9[5]
 Alarm Alarm
AF0[5]
 ARCWriter ArcWriter
AF1[5]
 Music Maestro
AF7[5]
 HelpInfo Help
AF8[5]
 1stWord+ First Word Plus
AF9[5]
 DtpDoc DTP document
AFA[5]
 DtpStyle DTP style
AFE[5]
 Mouse Mouse event record
AFF[5]
 DrawFile Draw .drw[7]
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Mapped equivalent

Generic data

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E00–FFF
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Connected party Mapped equivalent
FC8[5]
 DOSDisc DOS MultiFS disc image
FC9[5]
 SunRastr Sun raster Sun Microsystems .ras
FCA[5]
 Squash Single compressed file Acorn
FCC[5]
 Device Device object within DeviceFS Acorn
FCD[5]
 FileCoreHardDisc FileCore hard disc image Acorn
FCE[5]
 FileCoreFloppyDisc FileCore floppy disc image Acorn
FCF[5]
 Cache Font cache
FD0[5]
 PCEmConf PC Emulator configuration Acorn
FD1[5]
 BASICTxt BASIC stored as text Acorn
FD3[5]
 DebImage Acorn DDE debuggable image Acorn, Codemist
FD4[5]
 MIDIfile MIDI MIDI Manufacturers Association .mid, .smf
FD5[5]
 Pict PICT Apple Inc. .pict, .pct, .pic
FD6[5]
 TaskExec Exec (scripting language) file within task window Acorn
FD7[5]
 TaskObey Obey file within task window Acorn
FD8[5]
 MSDOScom PC Emulator DOS command file Digital Research .com
FD9[5]
 MSDOSexe PC Emulator DOS executable file Digital Research .exe
FDA[5]
 MSDOSbat PC Emulator DOS batch file Digital Research .bat
FDB[5]
 TextCRLF Text using CR and LF for line ends .txt
FDC[5]
 SoftLink TCP/IP suite: unresolvable UNIX soft link
FDD[5]
 MasterUtl Master utilities
FDE[5]
 VTSetup TCP/IP suite: VT220 setup Digital Equipment Corporation
FDF[5]
 VTScript TCP/IP suite: VT220 script Digital Equipment Corporation
FE1[5]
 Make Make data Acorn
FE2[5]
 Amiga Commodore Amiga file Commodore International
FE3[5]
 Atari Atari file Atari
FE4[5]
 DOS DOS file Digital Research, Microsoft
FE6[5]
 UNIX Ex Unix executable AT&T Corporation
FE7[5]
 ViewSht ViewSheet Acornsoft
FE8[5]
 ViewPS ViewPS Acornsoft
FE9[5]
 ViewWord ViewWord Acornsoft
FEA[5]
 Desktop Desktop file Acorn
FEB[5]
 Obey Obey file Acorn
FEC[5]
 Template Template file Acorn
FED[5]
 Palette Palette data Acorn
TIFF Tagged Image File Format Aldus Corporation .tiff, .tif
FF1[5]
 RawData Raw unprocessed data (e.g. terminal streams)
FF2[5]
 Config Configuration (CMOS RAM) Acorn
FF3[5]
 LaserJet HP LaserJet data file Hewlett-Packard
FF4[5]
 Printout Dot matrix printer data file
FF5[5]
 PoScript PostScript Adobe Systems .ps
FF6[5]
 Font Font Acorn
FF7[5]
 BBC font BBC font file (sequence of VDU operations) Acorn
FF8[5]
 Absolute, also
Acorn Image Format[3] 		Absolute application loaded at &8000 Acorn
FF9[5]
 Sprite Sprite or saved screen Acorn
FFA[5]
 Module Relocatable module Acorn
FFB[5]
 BASIC Tokenised BASIC program Acorn
FFC[5]
 Utility Position independent code Acorn
FFD[5]
 Data Data .dat
FFE[5]
 Command Command (Exec) file Acorn
FFF[5]
 Text Plain ASCII text .txt
Hexadecimal
type		 Name Use Connected party Mapped equivalent

References

  1. 1 2 Iyonix: MIMEMap
  2. ↑ RISC OS Documentation - The MimeMap module
  3. 1 2 Naulls, Peter (13 December 2004). "Do You Object?". Drobe. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  4. ↑ Resource allocation, ROOL website, RISC OS Open
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 RISC OS 3.7 User Guide Appendix E: RISC OS file types
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ChangeFSI file formats
  7. ↑ DRAW File Format

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