> hi all > > I play a lot of text adventure games of the z machine image format. To > avoid going into exhaustive detail, it's an old binary format from the > late eighties and early nineties made by a company called infocom. I've > created a frotz.xml file which has basic glob pattern support for these > mime types. They are very basic, having no magic matching since I'm not > sure how to add these. I'd like these to become part of the freedesktop > mime database if possible. The glob pattern is *.z1-8, but there may be > other file extensions I'm not aware of. I'm not sure at all how to get > good magic info for a file type, any help on that would be greatly > appreciated. I'd like to help out improve the mime database with support > for some currently missing mime types for game disk images as well, > noteably ps1 through 4, and nintendo switch images. I also created a bug > report for adding audible support, and this was done but never added to > the freedesktop database, the only reason I can think of is copyright > concerns, but this is only support for the format, you can't actually > play them. It is only so that when a file manager comes across these > files, they say what they are, it is still up to the user to provide > supporting apps. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I'm attaching my > frotz.xml file for review. > > Thanks > > Kendell Clark > >
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