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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:45 pm
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I hope I can get some help on this ng. I'm sure
these games are too old to be supported.
Incidentally, I'm using an eMachines T2200
running Windows XP which I just freshly
reinstalled.
1. Lost Treasures Of Infocom (1 and 2)
The status line doesn't appear at the top, but
instead at the end of each action, along with
some extraneous characters. This is merely
annoying for most games, but makes
Bureaucracy unplayable. Interestingly,
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doesn't
suffer from this glitch.
2. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Yes, I suppose a purist might not call it
interactive fiction, but I like it. At any rate,
whenever I try to run it, it keeps telling me to
insert disk 1, which is already in! This one is
particularly frustrating, as I know I used to be
able to play it on my machine. In fact, this
problem is a major reason I reinstalled
Windows, hoping that would solve it. Of course,
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game
countless times. Also, it seems to work just
fine on my brother-in-law's computer running
Windows XP.
TIA
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:31 pm
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:00 am
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Here, Tom Kerruish <tomys_kerrush DeleteThis @webtv.net> wrote:
> I hope I can get some help on this ng. I'm sure
> these games are too old to be supported.
> Incidentally, I'm using an eMachines T2200
> running Windows XP which I just freshly
> reinstalled.
>
> 1. Lost Treasures Of Infocom (1 and 2)
>
> The status line doesn't appear at the top, but
> instead at the end of each action, along with
> some extraneous characters. This is merely
> annoying for most games, but makes
> Bureaucracy unplayable. Interestingly,
> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doesn't
> suffer from this glitch.
Download a copy of WinFrotz. It plays these games much better on
modern Windows systems.
> 2. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
>
> Yes, I suppose a purist might not call it
> interactive fiction, but I like it. At any rate,
> whenever I try to run it, it keeps telling me to
> insert disk 1, which is already in!
Here, I cannot help you.
--Z
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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:48 am
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"Steve Wertz" wrote in news:1kj1jhnq6p47n.dlg@sqwertzwashere.com:
>> 2. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
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> You might try copying that game to a 3.5" floppy, as that's
> probably what it's looking for rather than a CD.
>
> -sw
You're thinking of the wrong game - Zork: GI was available on CD or
DVD. Copying to floppies would be practically impossible.
Rikard >> Stay informed about: Help with old games |
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:53 pm
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 3:51 pm
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Tom Kerruish wrote:
> 1. Lost Treasures Of Infocom (1 and 2)
>
> The status line doesn't appear at the top, but
> instead at the end of each action, along with
> some extraneous characters. This is merely
> annoying for most games, but makes
> Bureaucracy unplayable. Interestingly,
> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doesn't
> suffer from this glitch.
In DOS the ANSI.SYS driver had to be loaded to get rid of this.
Just use a recent interpreter like Windows Frotz.
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"Und darum verschwende ich schon 7 Jahre, um es unter ständiger
Retraumatisierung permanent hervorzuwürgen."
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:30 pm
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Tom Kerruish wrote:
> 2. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
>
> Yes, I suppose a purist might not call it
> interactive fiction, but I like it. At any rate,
> whenever I try to run it, it keeps telling me to
> insert disk 1, which is already in! This one is
> particularly frustrating, as I know I used to be
> able to play it on my machine. In fact, this
> problem is a major reason I reinstalled
> Windows, hoping that would solve it. Of course,
> I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game
> countless times. Also, it seems to work just
> fine on my brother-in-law's computer running
> Windows XP.
Here's a question: Do you have two CD-ROM drives (Perhaps one CD-ROM
and one DVD-ROM drive)?
I had two CD-ROM drives once, and I used to always use the E: drive
because it was more reliable. But I found out that Return to Zork and
Zork Nemesis would not recognize the presence of the CD unless it was
in the D: drive. The same thing COULD be true of Zork: Grand
Inquisitor. The games would install from those drives, but when
PLAYING the games, it had to be in Drive D.
(I eventually re-wired my computer so that the more reliable drive was
Drive D: and the less reliable one--actually a DVD-ROM drive--was Drive
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:05 am
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Here, Steve Wertz <swertz.RemoveThis@cluemail.compost> wrote:
> On 21 May 2006 09:48:21 GMT, Rikard Peterson wrote:
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> > "Steve Wertz" wrote in news:1kj1jhnq6p47n.dlg@sqwertzwashere.com:
> >
> >>> 2. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
> >>
> >> You might try copying that game to a 3.5" floppy, as that's
> >> probably what it's looking for rather than a CD.
> >>
> >> -sw
> >
> > You're thinking of the wrong game - Zork: GI was available on CD or
> > DVD. Copying to floppies would be practically impossible.
>
> Yeah - Anything past Zork 3 is foreign to me, though I did start
> playing Zero last night. I just figured all Infocom games were
> old enough to be on floppies.
Zork Grand Inquisitor was created by Activision, long after Infocom
(the original company) had disintegrated. I don't even think it had
the Infocom name-brand on it.
--Z
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:07 am
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Tom Kerruish wrote:
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> 2. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
>
> Yes, I suppose a purist might not call it
> interactive fiction, but I like it. At any rate,
> whenever I try to run it, it keeps telling me to
> insert disk 1, which is already in! This one is
> particularly frustrating, as I know I used to be
> able to play it on my machine. In fact, this
> problem is a major reason I reinstalled
> Windows, hoping that would solve it. Of course,
> I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game
> countless times. Also, it seems to work just
> fine on my brother-in-law's computer running
> Windows XP.
>
I had this very same problem when trying to run GI on my laptop.
My laptop has a fixed CD plus one of those smart-bays which can hold a
floppy drive, zip drive, 2nd CD or extra battery. If I had anything
except a floppy in the smart bay, it would ask for CD 1, even though CD
1 was in the CD. I think that maybe since many modern computers don't
come with floppies, the problem is associated with that somehow.
Check out some of the tech help at TheZorkLibrary.com message board
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:19 pm
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Thanks a lot! That was exactly the link I was looking for to make Zork
Nemesis run on my PC under Windows XP. It will be the first graphic
adventure for me to play in years and I'm really looking forward to it.
So I was very disappointed when I tried it to install it and it didn't
run from CD.
Thanks again
Bob >> Stay informed about: Help with old games |
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:43 pm
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Tom Kerruish <tomys_kerrush DeleteThis @webtv.net> wrote:
I hope I can get some help on this ng. I'm sure these games are too old
to be supported. Incidentally, I'm using an eMachines T2200 running
Windows XP which I just freshly
reinstalled.
1. Lost Treasures Of Infocom (1 and 2)
The status line doesn't appear at the top, but instead at the end of
each action, along with some extraneous characters. This is merely
annoying for most games, but makes
Bureaucracy unplayable. Interestingly,
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doesn't suffer from this glitch.
erkyrath DeleteThis @eblong.com (Andrew Plotkin) wrote
Download a copy of WinFrotz. It plays these games much better on modern
Windows systems.
Thanks! I'll try this. >> Stay informed about: Help with old games |
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