mime info for z Machine game images

[kendell clark]

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

[kendell clark]

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