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Summary
Name	ACE
Version	2
Other names
Identifiers	MIME: application/x-ace-compressed PUID: fmt/2076
Family
Classification	Aggregate
Disclosure
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.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University
Source date	27 Nov 2025
Source description
Last updated	27 Nov 2025
Note	http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/ACE