Format

ACE

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Summary

Name

ACE

Version

Identifiers

MIME: application/x-ace-compressed
PUID: fmt/2076

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. Version 2 of ACE introduced new compression schemes that are not supported by all ACE compression software.

Note

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/ACE

File extensions

ace

Source

Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University

Internal signatures

ACE Archive 2

Note: BOF; Offset: 7; Magic Bytes: '**ACE**' followed by byte sequence of 0x1414

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 7
Max offset: 0
Byte Sequence: 2A2A4143452A2A1414
Endianness: None

Changelog

Added in V122

Release date

19 January 2026

ACE 2: Signature researched and samples provided by Brigham Young University.

ACE 2: Full entry added. Submitted by Brigham Young University.