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From: mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Microsoft Multimedia "Standard" - sim to IFF?
Keywords: RIFF,IFF
Message-ID: <224@touch.touch.com>
Date: 31 May 91 22:51:46 GMT
References: <1991May25.025244.23547@ncsu.edu>
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Organization: Touch Communications
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In article <1991May25.025244.23547@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>> I read recently (last few months?) that Microsoft had a "New" standard
>> for Multimedia -- This sounded like a file format standard similar
>> to (:-) the IFF standard on the Amiga.
>>
>> Does anyone remember seeing this, and if so, what it is called?
>
>Quoting from the IBM/Microsoft Introduction:
>
> "RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) is the tagged file structure
> developed for multimedia resource files.  The structure of a RIFF file

I read about 9 months ago, in a mac rag, about apple developing a
standard called MIFF (you can guess what the M stands for!).

It specifically said it was based on EA's IFF standard developed for the Amiga.
(guess they were stating right there who the leader in multi-media is!).

Anyway, it was amazing they gave the ami credit.  Maybe this permutated
into RIFF? don't know.  would bve interesting to know.

Maybe C= should advertise that the macs MM technology is based on the amiga's.
Maybe they could nail 'em on LOOK & FEEL issues!!!!!!!!!