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by surfingdino 707 days ago
Handy resource. Thanks.

Is see IFF is missing from that list. Used to be popular in the Amiga world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format

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Well there are formats like AIFF and WAVE, see here:

https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/audio/

These are more or less direct descendants of IFF so to speak (WAVE being based on RIFF, which is essentially little-endian IFF), the page also mentions as much:

"Audio IFF conforms to the "EA IFF 85" Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts."

IFF was a popular image format at the time.
Would that have been ILBM specifically? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILBM

I wasn't using Amigas at that time, I had an Atari... I vaguely remember Targa files (.tga)

DeluxePaint used IFF. Here's a good writeup https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2012/06/iff-file-forma...
Lots of popular formats are missing (JPEG, PNG) so I guess the author focuses more on ones that are not "too well-known"?