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I found a "CD patch" that seems to manually uncompress the files (see links below) on a fan infocom page:

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/games.html
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Download/RTZCD12.EXE

However, I still cannot get Zork to play. When I run RTZ.bat, it says "No sound driver resident".

I am on XP with SB Live! When setting up install.exe, I've tried SB, SB Pro, and SB 16 settings, and cannot get past the "No sound driver resident message".

Help appreciated figuring this out!

Got to work in XP using dosbox, burnt the contents of the zip to a CD (d:\ not d:\rtz) and mounted the hd and cdrom drive in dosbox and then installed it. Chose a full install which copys the files to the hard disk, when it asks for the cd drive i pointed at the cd drive as opposed the hard disk. Set up the sound card SB16 i/o 220 irq 7 dma 1. got to c:\rtz-cd and run rtz.bat enjoy

[wendymaree]

LATEST: HERE IS THE SOLUTION

Some might have already figured this out, but I've got the game to work both from the hard drive and also burning it to a CD. The trick is this: When you unzip the files put them in the route of either the CD drive or drive C or D on your hard drive. What this means is don't put the unzipped files into a folder. Put them straight onto the C drive or the D drive. The same when burning to a CD.

Now, when you've unzipped the files to the route of a drive, click on install.exe. They will ask where you want the files to go and also the name of your CD Drive. For the name of your CD Rom drive, give the drive letter where the initial files where inzipped. I think it might work best if you put the files that are to be uncompressed into another drive from the inital unzipped files. Burning the files to a CD and placing them in the route of the CD drive will also work.

*happy dancing*

Now going back to see what's been written since last night (my time)

[taikara]

Gah.

Zork rocks. Text games rock.

Anything with pictures cannot truly be Zork, and therefore cannot rock.

Text games are games at their purest. All story, no eye candy, and only your brains can get you to the end.

Of course, Sierra rocks, but then, you still needed brains to play the old Sierra games, too.

Those were the days. I curse the invention of "Point and Click," even though early Lucasfilm was pretty sweet.

I'll try it anyway. Ignorant prejudice never made anyone happy.

[wendymaree]

Originally posted by Mec@Jan 23 2005, 09:44 PM
Got to work in XP using dosbox, burnt the contents of the zip to a CD (d:\ not d:\rtz) and mounted the hd and cdrom drive in dosbox and then installed it. Chose a full install which copys the files to the hard disk, when it asks for the cd drive i pointed at the cd drive as opposed the hard disk. Set up the sound card SB16 i/o 220 irq 7 dma 1. got to c:\rtz-cd and run rtz.bat enjoy

Mec, that's great news that you have the game working. Thanks for sharing that and the secret of your success And, yes, you're right - the secret is to put the unzipped files into the route directory NOT in a folder. You don't have to burn them to a CD. The game will also work from the hard drive. The trick to getting this to work is selecting the drive letter where the unzipped files are as the 'name of the CD Rom drive' when asked by the installation program.

[wendymaree]

DATA'S SOLUTION FOR PLAYING RTZ THROUGH DOSBOX:

example:
extract to c:\

go inside dosbox
mount c c:\
c:
cd RTZ
subst d .\
d:
install
change install path to c:\rtz
run install (do not move 45 mb)
configure it right.
play the game.

I didn't have audio but I'm not sure if you uploaded it as it appears to be redbook audio and those are stored in audio tracks I recall. not certain.)

You can then recreacte the archve from c:\rtz (as you installed it from the same directory as where you installed it too (see the subst trick) )

Play withit yourself. (you can say the c:\ is your cdrom)

Thanks, Data! k:

[Kon-Tiki]

Works like a charm now k:

[wendymaree]

Yippee! Thanks for letting us know, Kon-Tiki.

ANOTHER SOLUTION:

Using Dosbox, you can trick the game into thinking that c:\rtz is the CD-ROM drive c:\.

unzip the files into c:\rtz

load up dosbox

>mount c c:\rtz
>c:
>install

set the directory for installation to c:\rtz-cd (which is actually c:\rtz\rtz-cd)

after the installation is complete, run the install.exe in the rtz-cd directory FROM WINDOWS, not dosbox. Set up the sound and set the CD-ROM directory to 'Drive C:'.

The working directory for RTZ will be shown as c:\rtz\rtz-cd, that is okay.

Then run rtz.bat through dosbox, this worked for me and I have sound.

-Timelord

[wendymaree]

Thanks for that information, TimeLord.