Alien Breed INF Format

AVM.INF is a 39-byte binary record. It combines fixed-width ASCII fields and one binary byte. CONFIG_.EXE contains a reference to avm.inf, supporting use by the configuration program.

File format

Offset	Length	Observed content
0x00	30	Alien Breed padded with spaces
0x1E	8	ALIEN padded with three spaces
0x26	1	02

The first field plausibly holds a display name and the second an executable basename. This is an inference from their values, not a recovered reader implementation. The purpose of the final byte is unknown.

Notes

Read the first two fields as fixed-width ASCII, trim trailing spaces for presentation, and preserve the last byte. Do not interpret this file using Windows Setup INF syntax: it has no section lines or key/value text and contains a binary tail.

No public specification for this AVM record was located in searches for Alien Breed's configuration resources. READ.ME is the original local reference for the configuration utility, but does not define these fields.

Files

Paths are relative to game/.

File	Stored bytes
AVM.INF	39

Credits

The Alien Breed-specific format research and parsers were prepared by VorticonCmdr. If you find this information helpful in a project you're working on, please give credit where credit is due. (A link back to this wiki would be nice too!)