Town of ZZT in ~26:00 by Dr. Dos

Post by **Quantum P.** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:32 am

Remember Star Wars ASCIImation?

I wish DOSBox could make recordings like that for text games. That (and color data) is all you really need for ZZT, and it would probably be less resource-intensive than recording an .avi file.

Mister Lad · Post by **Mister Lad** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:32 pm

Look sorry but nobody actually lieks this game and nobody actually likes seedruns either...?

phunk · Post by **phunk** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:50 pm

yeah really

Ellypses · Post by **Ellypses** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:23 am

Try a cheap alternative recorder thingy.

http://dosrecorder.sf.net/

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:02 am

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6735&hl=en

The google video version is very blurry.

http://zzt.org/dr_dos/temp/To ... eedrun.avi 32mb

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:11 am

what's with all the pauses?

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:21 am

Am I the only person who noticed you can travel say 10 steps with pausing in the same time other things move 5?

Meanwhile if you didn't pause you'd move 5 and they'd move 5?

It's how you skip the Castle for one thing.

Post by **Alexis Janson** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:26 pm

ingenious dos, but i was hoping this thread was about MAKING town of zzt in ~26:00 and thus i am disappointed.

Zandor 12 · Post by **Zandor 12** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:28 pm

Getting the green key from the Armory was a pretty clever trick - I'm suprised I never thought of that since I'm not a big fan of slider puzzles.

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:24 am

Bumping because ZZT General is pretty boring anymore.

http://zzt.org/dr_dos/temp/dungeons.avi only 1.5mb

Dungeons in 2 minutes :keen:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2862953258

ass quality google video.

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:52 am

Shadow Mage · Post by **Shadow Mage** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:13 am

On an interesting side note, it might be interesting to try seeing what else can be accomplished using doses pause trick.

Its like bullet-time for zzt.

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:49 am

Shadow Mage wrote:On an interesting side note, it might be interesting to try seeing what else can be accomplished using doses pause trick.

Its like bullet-time for zzt.

http://zzt.org/dr_dos/vid/mousehold.swf

The real trick is to use the mouse and hold P while moving.

I forgot to demonstrate how you can run into your own bullets like this.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:15 am

that makes sense.

Good job. I've been trying to get past that door for years.