Okay, I picked up a mac copy for 1 dollar at a local thrift shop, can dosbox play it? Or do I have to get a vm to play it.
wrote:Okay, I picked up a mac copy for 1 dollar at a local thrift shop, can dosbox play it? Or do I have to get a vm to play it.
If it's for Mac, it will only run on a Mac or a Mac emulator. DOSBox is for DOS games. You'd probably need something like mini vMac or Basilisk to run something so old.
Thanks, I didn't relies it was a mac copy until I got it home.
Well, I have 64bit win7
Want some Rye?
wrote:Want some Rye?
'Course you do!
Excuse me?!
wrote:Excuse me?!
Oh, well considering I was stupid and bought the mac version I will never be able to play it... 😠
wrote:Oh, well considering I was stupid and bought the mac version I will never be able to play it... 😠
It's not a total loss. Infocom games are hot sellers, so you'd easily be able to get back more than you paid for it on ebay.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
I always preferred, 'You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike'
It may be possible to run the game using ScummVM...
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO-Mac_Games
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles
Good luck!
Thanks guys, I'll try those. 😁
you can play some of the zork games in your browser
http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/
Guardian of the Sacred Five Terabyte's of Gaming Goodness
You can play with a z-machine and a way to move the data files from the game disc to the machine you want to run the game on. That's all the infocom games were, was a game engine with a different data file for each game.
Unfortunately, Return to Zork is a graphical adventure and not a Z-machine game.
