LanguageORC
CSound Orchestra midi audio
File type: Audio and sound file
The ORC file extension is related to the CSound Orchestra midi file format.
Found 4 different file type records with the same orc filename suffix.
What is orc file?
File type category:
Audio and sound file
Date updated: August 19, 2024
The orc file extension used by CSound for “orchestra” data info, was first used by the Orchestra-80/85/95/2000 Music Language and program/hardware originally used for the Radio Shack TRS-80 Models 1, 3, 4, 4P (with a hardware attachment of 2 8-bit DACs via their expansion ports for stereo output using software additive synthesis of up to 5 voices, each with 8-harmonic registers supported) and later (Orch-90/CC) the Color Computer Models 1, 2 and 3 (via a ROMpack).
Such orc files were essentially text only files in upper case only, using a partial compression of the last characters at the end of each line, but setting its high “bit” to one, thus saving two bytes otherwise used for CR/LF control character terminators.
How to open orc file?
Use compatible tools to playback *.orc files.
How to convert orc file?
Possibly can be converted like any other audio formats.
Suggested software to open orc file:
Associated software actions with the orc file
Apps designed for playing orc files:
Winamp (Microsoft Windows)
Audio Overload (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Heroes of Might and Magic VI game data
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: December 19, 2018
The orc file extension is associated with Heroes of Might and Magic VI computer game and used for its resource data archives.
ORC format seems to be some sort of encoded ZIP archive. There seems to be program called ORC to ZIP and ZIP to ORC converter that is able to convert .orc files to .zip and back.
An .orc files contain various types of data (graphic, sound etc.) used in the game.
- Data.orc contains various xml setting files, various texts, story dialogues and such
- Data1.orc contains 3D models and animations
- Data2.orc contains campaign and singleplayer map data
- Data3.orc contains sounds and music
- Data4.orc contains GUI elements, such as icons, loading screens etc.
- Data5.orc and Data6.orc contains texture data
How to open orc file?
You cannot open this file type manually, it is accessed by the game automatically.
How to convert orc file?
You can use ORC to ZIP program to convert .orc files. You can extract it afterwards and access its contents.
Suggested software to open orc file:
Associated software actions with the orc file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving orc files:
Heroes of Might and Magic VI (Microsoft Windows)
Oracle 7 script
File type category:
Source code and script file
Date updated: January 24, 2019
The orc file extension is also related to script files used by Oracle database system. Reported to have been used in version 7.
There are no information available if it is used in the latest version.
How to open orc file?
Use compatible tools to work with *.orc files.
How to convert orc file?
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Suggested software to open orc file:
Associated software actions with the orc file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving orc files:
Oracle Database (Multiplatform)
µVision global register coloring data
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 25, 2019
The orc file extension is associated with the µVision, a software development platform, available for Microsoft Windows and used for files that contain Global Register coloring data used for optimize purposes.
How to open orc file?
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
How to convert orc file?
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Suggested software to open orc file:
Associated software actions with the orc file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving orc files:
µVision4 (Microsoft Windows)