Each software is programmed in a different language, like many programs and games use C++ as a basis.
Although all programs are programmed in these languages and are made up of code that you cannot read as it is compiled, many use different formats for the files they read.
Like if you tried to open a music file in a text editor, there is no way music can be heard by Notepad, so instead the computer reads what it interprets the characters as. Often these characters would not be recognizable, so you will see a lot of squares or dos-based characters.
Also as Gluk Schmuck said, these file formats take up less space than a standard text file would for example.
Binary code is actually made up of 1s and 0s, so you would see something like 00011001. There is a programming language called Assembly Language and you can only write the code in 1s and 0s. We had to do it when I studied computers, and that is one hard language to use!!!
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