Supported Files

Supported File Formats

ALX OS supports reading, decoding, parsing, and processing various file formats directly within the operating system. The supported formats are categorized below:

Executables & Expression 2 (E2)

• E2E — Executable files containing the name of a function to execute in Expression2 (embedded in the chip).
• E2S — Source files containing the name of an Expression2 function to display as source code (does not execute).
• E2R — Files containing the full Expression2 source code to be executed on a Remote Executor board via the remoteupload E2 extension.
• E2P — Files containing a string path to a file inside the garrysmod/data/expression2/ directory to be executed on a Remote Executor.

Images

• JPG — Baseline, Progressive, and 12-bit JPEG images.
• PNG — PNG images with Deflate compression and Adam7 interlacing.
• GIF — Static and animated GIF images.
• BMP — BMP images, including RLE4 and RLE8 compression variants.

Audio

• GMS — Text files containing the path of a sound file to be played (relative to garrysmod/sound/).
• MID — MIDI music files fully supported by the MIDI player.

Archives

• ZIP — Standard ZIP archives using Deflate compression.

Text

• TXT — Plain text files.
• INI — Text-based configuration files using standard INI structure.

Note: Support is strictly focused on reading, decoding, parsing, and processing files within ALX OS. Not all internal variants, encodings, or compression methods of a given format may be fully supported.