À propos des fichiers 8SVX

8SVX (Amiga 8SVX Audio · Format audio)

Lancement 1985 Par Electronic Arts (IFF 8SVX)

Amiga 8SVX Audio (.8svx) est un format de fichier pris en charge par KaijuConverter pour l’archivage, l’échange professionnel et la conversion multiplateforme.

Famille

Audio Files

Extension

.8svx

Type MIME

audio/8svx

Utilisable comme

Entrée

L'histoire

COMMENT 8SVX
A VU LE JOUR.

1985

1990

8SVX — 8-bit Sampled Voice — was one of Electronic Arts’ original IFF chunk formats, shipped in 1985 with the Commodore Amiga. The Amiga’s Paula audio chip could play 8-bit mono samples at up to 28 kHz — revolutionary for home computers in 1985. Games, demos, and music trackers used 8SVX as the universal Amiga sample format. Every MOD file composer, every demoscene artist, every Shadow of the Beast musician worked with 8SVX.

Amiga commercial decline in the mid-1990s ended new 8SVX production. Today the format survives in Amiga preservation archives and retrocomputing emulator contexts. A .8svx file today is usually a sample extracted from a 1990-era MOD music track or a game audio archive. SoX and FFmpeg read it for historical purposes.

CURIOSITÉS ET
ANECDOTES.

Every Commodore Amiga game from 1985-1995 stored its sound samples as 8SVX — a cultural artifact of an entire computing era.

8SVX uses Electronic Arts' IFF chunk container, the same structure that later gave us AIFF and RIFF.

The demoscene on Amiga used 8SVX samples in MOD trackers — the ancestor of all modern tracker music.

Paula, the Amiga's audio chip, could mix four 8SVX samples simultaneously — a feat for 1985 hardware.

Shadow of the Beast's legendary soundtrack (1989) is entirely 8SVX samples triggered by MOD sequences.

POINTS FORTS ET
LIMITES.

Points forts

Amiga-native archival format.
Simple structure.
IFF chunk-based.

Limites

Legacy — no new content.
8-bit mono only.
Tiny ecosystem in 2026.

Tailles et poids typiques

Amiga game sample

2-100 KB

Spécifications techniques

MIME type: audio/8svx
Extension: .8svx, .iff
Container: EA IFF
Bit depth: 8-bit
Max rate: 28 kHz

CONVERTIR DEPUIS
8SVX

8svx mp3 8svx wav 8svx flac 8svx aac 8svx m4a 8svx ogg 8svx opus 8svx wma 8svx aiff 8svx aif 8svx gsm 8svx voc 8svx w64 8svx shn 8svx sox 8svx snd 8svx tta 8svx wv 8svx spx 8svx mp2 8svx dsf 8svx dff

CONVERTIR EN
8SVX

aif 8svx gsm 8svx voc 8svx w64 8svx shn 8svx sox 8svx snd 8svx tta 8svx wv 8svx spx 8svx mp2 8svx dsf 8svx dff 8svx

Cas d'usage courants

Amiga retro computing, demoscene audio, vintage sound archives