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<H2><A NAME="s6">6. SID Filename Extensions</A></H2>
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<P>Sidfiles usually have one of the following file name extensions:
.sid, .dat, .inf, .DAT, .SID, .INF, .c64, .prg, .C64, .PRG, .info,
.INFO, .data, .DATA
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<LI>".sid"<P>Preferred default file extension for single-file sidtunes
sidtune description files in SIDPLAY INFOFILE format.
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<LI>".dat"<P>Common file extension for single-file sidtunes due to SIDPLAY/DOS
displaying files *.DAT in its file selector by default.
Originally this was intended to be the extension of the raw data
file of two-file sidtunes in SIDPLAY INFOFILE format.
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<LI>".inf"<P>Extension of Amiga Workbench tooltype icon info files, which
have been cut to MS-DOS file name length (8.3).
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<LI>""<P>No extension for the raw data file of two-file sidtunes in
PlaySID Amiga Workbench tooltype icon info format.
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<LI>".DAT", ".SID", ".INF"<P>Common upper-case file extensions from MS-DOS (unconverted).
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<LI>".c64", ".prg", ".C64", ".PRG"<P>File extensions used (and created) by various C64 emulators and
related utilities. These extensions are recommended to be used as
a replacement for ".dat" in conjunction with two-file sidtunes.
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<LI>".info", ".INFO", ".data", ".DATA"<P>Uncut extensions from Amiga.
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