ACE

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ACE Archive Preview.

At a glance

How much Poka reads

B4 Summary. The container and metadata are read and summarised (counts, properties, structure), but the main content is not rendered.

Confidence: medium (the reviewer read the code). Basis: Reviewed 2026-10-26: read parsers/poka-ace/src/main.rs (287 lines) and plugin.json. No unit tests or tests/samples.rs; the corpus has no .ace sample. Covers .ace. The card walks the header blocks and shows the version, host OS, volume, DOS timestamp, the number of header blocks and file entries, compression types, totals and ratio, and the first 24 entries. Judgement: B4: the archive is summarised and partly listed, but no member is extracted or shown.

What Poka does not read

• Member contents are not extracted or shown (ACE decompression is not implemented)
• Only the first 24 entries are listed (64 read)
• The archive comment and authenticity information are not shown
• The DOS timestamp is shown raw
• Files over 256 MiB are cut (flagged)

Libraries

Libraries Poka uses or has assessed for this format, with the status, licence and language the registry records.

• acefile (candidate; BSD-2-Clause; Python; https://github.com/droe/acefile) — Reads, tests and extracts ACE 1.0/2.0 incl. multi-volume and password-protected; read-only; optional C speed-up module
• unarc-rs (candidate; MIT OR Apache-2.0; Rust; https://github.com/mkrueger/unarc-rs) — Universal archive extraction & decompression library for retro + modern formats (7z, ZIP, RAR, LHA/LZH, TAR, ACE, ARJ, ARC/PAK, ZOO, HA, JAR, UC2, SQ/SQ2, SQZ, HYP, gz, bz2, Z, ICE, Pack-Ice).; v0.7.2

Sources

• parsers/poka-ace/src/main.rs
• parsers/poka-ace/plugin.json