Magic Desk icon

File Format
Name	Magic Desk icon
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Magic Desk icon
Extension(s)	.icn, .tbi
Released	~1993

Magic Desk icon is an icon format associated with Magic Desk, a graphical menu system for DOS developed by Virtual Magic Software.

Magic Desk is spelled "MagicDesk" in some third-party descriptions.

Magic Desk is the successor of ToyBox -- see ToyBox icon. Unfortunately, while the ToyBox and Magic Desk icon formats are often indistinguishable, they use different color palettes, and must be interpreted differently.

Identification

Known files start with 0x1f 0x1f, and are 515 bytes in size.

The byte at offset 2 is observed to be either 0x03 or 0xff.

Note that this does not necessarily distinguish the format from ToyBox icon.

Software

• Magic Desk v3.01 (1993)
• Magic Desk v3.22 (1995)
• Deark

Sample files

• http://cd.textfiles.com/qsamania2/ MENU-*/*.ICN
• deskicns.zip
• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/magicDeskIcon/
• Some samples are included with the software, but installation is needed.