Phillip:

Kevin first let me say thanks for making it possibe to play Zork: GI. Now for my issue, I installed the game and your patch manually. I folled the directions exactly, but I cant restore my saved game. I have read all of the post on this site and have seen that Meghan has the same problem. Perhaps she installed the game in Program Files but perhaps not because I made sure not to and am still having this problem. Please help. Thanks

@Phillip: Responded to via e-mail to begin troubleshooting.

Your XP guide for Zork: GI works perfectly for Vista as well – I really can’t thank you enough, I played this game as a child and getting it working on my current machine is a dream come true.

@Tickle: Thanks for the kind words. Glad I could help!

thank you so much for doing this, but i am still having trouble saving the changes on the ZIX file on step c of the manual method.
i un-ticked the read only box, and all my settings allow it, so why cant i change it?
and i dont really understand how the automatic way works!
is there any way i can make it work?

@marisa: It sounds like you installed to C:\Program Files and aren’t running as administrator in Vista. Either run from an administrator account or right-click on Zork Nemesis and select “Run as Administrator”.

The XP way doesn’t quite work for me. It runs the program without the possibility of starting a new game, and if i do anything it shuts down.

@Tom: I don’t understand your problem. Can you give me more details?

Mac osx guide that worked for me (using leopard on a macbook)

http://www.silentcorner.com/archive/2004/01/31/play-zork-on-mac-os-x/

@Maurice: Thanks for the info!

Thanks so much for this guide…it got the game working on my Vista-running laptop. Unfortunately, it crashes when I try to restore saved games. Has anyone else had/managed to fix this problem?

@Meghan: It sounds like you have the same issue as marisa. Check my answer to her above. I’ll be incorporating all this info into my next revision of the guides.

Hi,
I have Windows Vista 64bit. The game freezes when I use the zix file with the information that I copied off your sight. Using the zix file off of an older pc I had, I was able to get to the screen where it asks for the cd, but I already had the cd in the drive, so I’m not sure what was wrong there.
Kevin

@Kevin: I haven’t tested my guides of 64-bit Windows, so I can’t say for sure if the game works there. Try right-clicking on properties on Zork Nemesis and going to the Compatibility tab. There you can try a few different compatibility modes. Also, try running as administrator like I recommended to marisa and Meghan.

Hi, I followed your instruction using the manual way, i created those folders, created the nemesis.zix file, copied the whole modified text into it , and so on. All I see is a black screen!?!
Please help me!!!!!!!!!! thx

@Marc I haven’t heard of this issue before. It may be a video card driver issue. Can you give me more info about your computer and operating system?

I have Windows Vista 64bit. The game freezes when I use the zix file with the information that I copied off your sight. Using the zix file off of an older pc I had, I was able to get to the screen where it asks for the cd, but I already had the cd in the drive, so I’m not sure what was wrong there.

Kevin

http://www.silentcorner.com/archive/2004/01/31/play-zork-on-mac-os-x/

i cant find the nem_man.exe on my CD1

After looking into the issue more, I have found that nem_man.exe isn’t really necessary. You can proceed without it.

I can confirm that Frotz works on Mac OS. It’s directly available through the fink package manager, or can be downloaded and compiled.

Thanks for the info. I don’t have a Mac, so I can’t test it myself, but I’ll make a note of it on the guide index page soon. Feel free to write a guide yourself, even just modifying the one for frotz that I provide if you like.