.IFF File Description

Interchange File Format (IFF), is a generic file format originally introduced by the Electronic Arts company in 1985 (in cooperation with Commodore-Amiga) in order to ease transfer of data between software products produced by different companies.

IFF files do not have any common extension. Most files with .iff extension are in fact ILBM files, wrongly named so because they are the most common IFF files and most assume that they are the only type of IFF files (on many systems that produce IFF files, file extensions are not important).

Other Information For .IFF File Extension

• Company:

  Electronic Arts, Inc.

• File Type:

  Interchange File Format

• Identifying Characters (Hex):

  49 46 46 20 46 49 4C 45 20 32 2E 35 3A 54 59 50 45 20 46 4F 4C 4C 4F 57 45 44 20 42 59 20 53 49 5A 45

• Identifying Characters (ASCII):

  IFF FILE 2.5:TYPE FOLLOWED BY SIZE