Read CBA files in your browser
A comic as an ACE archive of its pages, from the years WinACE was popular. Read one right here, a page or a spread at a time. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your comic opens at its first page, the rest unpacked as you read.
- One page or two • Spreads as printed
- Left to right, or right to left for manga
- Locked archives • Opened with their password
- Export • Save as PDF or CBZ
About CBA
CDisplay, the first comic reader for Windows, read comics as archives of pictures, one per page: .cbz for ZIP, .cbr for RAR and .cba for ACE, which WinACE made popular around 2000. Comics packed then still turn up as CBA.
Few apps read ACE any longer. WinACE was last updated in 2007, WinRAR stopped unpacking ACE in 2019 and most comic readers never read it, so a CBA rarely opens anywhere.
Filepeek unpacks the pages with its own ACE reader as you come to them, ACE 1 and 2 and passwords included. Read a page or two at a time, right to left for manga, and save it as a PDF or as a CBZ that every reader opens.
Comic book ACE
.cba
Format
- MIME type
- application/x-cba
- Made by
- David Ayton (CDisplay)
Inside the file
- Pages
- Pictures, one per page
- Order
- By name, page 2 before page 10
- Details
- ComicInfo.xml: series, issue and creators
- Archive
- ACE 1 or ACE 2
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens CBA files as comics in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. No browser opens ACE by itself, so browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open CBA
- WindowsCDisplayEx • WinACE unpacks its pages
- MacNo app built in opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
Why won't my comic reader open a CBA?
Most comic readers never read ACE, and WinRAR stopped unpacking it in 2019. Filepeek reads ACE with a reader of its own.
Can I turn it into a CBZ?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as CBZ, and its pages go into a ZIP that every comic reader and e-reader opens.
Can it open a CBA with a password?
Yes. Type the password when Filepeek asks, and it opens. The password stays on your device, and it's gone once you close the file.