Format
ACE
Summary
- Name
- ACE
- Version
- 1
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/x-ace-compressed
- PUID: fmt/2075
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- ACE is a compressed archive format, originally developed by Marcel Lemke and later by e-merge GmbH. Some relevant software includes Ace (for DOS, OS/2 and Windows console, WinAce, Active ACE and ACE Compression.
- Note
- http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/ACE
- File extensions
-
ace - Source
- Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University
Internal signatures
ACE Archive 1
- Note
- BOF; Offset: 7; Magic Bytes: '**ACE**' followed by byte of either 0x0A, 0x0B, 0x0C or 0x0D and then either 0x0A, 0x0B, 0x0C, 0x0D or 0x14
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 7
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
2A2A4143452A2A(0A|0B|0C|0D)(0A|0B|0C|0D|14)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V122
- Release date
- 19 January 2026
ACE 1: Signature researched and samples provided by Brigham Young University.
ACE 1: Full entry added. Submitted by Brigham Young University.