ZZT won't run from a CD?
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ZZT won't run from a CD?
I tried to enter my ZZT game this year in the TSA competition [not the airport guys- read my other post] and the game wouldn't run from the CD. It would just say "DOS Error" and make a red screen. Is there any way you know of to run ZZT from a read-only place?
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I was able to reproduce this by putting DOSBox and ZZT on a read-only disk image; loading games and restoring saved games both failed to work.
I then tried setting just TOWN.ZZT and SAVED.SAV to read-only; all the other games ran just fine, but I couldn't play Town or restore my saved game. So it looks like ZZT needs write access (even if it doesn't use it, which is weird).
Idea 1: I don't know if this exists, but DOSBox might have an option for simulating a writeable filesystem. You can't be the only one who's wanted to run a game from a CD.
Idea 2: I bet someone's already written a TSR that fools DOS programs into thinking they have full disk access. If not, I bet it's not that hard to write one.
I then tried setting just TOWN.ZZT and SAVED.SAV to read-only; all the other games ran just fine, but I couldn't play Town or restore my saved game. So it looks like ZZT needs write access (even if it doesn't use it, which is weird).
Idea 1: I don't know if this exists, but DOSBox might have an option for simulating a writeable filesystem. You can't be the only one who's wanted to run a game from a CD.
Idea 2: I bet someone's already written a TSR that fools DOS programs into thinking they have full disk access. If not, I bet it's not that hard to write one.
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When I first got ZZT and Super ZZT they were on a shareware CD and I ran them right off the cd. You obviously can't save, but it definitely was possible in Windows 95.
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quoting to confirm, because this was also my very first exposure to zztDr. Dos wrote:When I first got ZZT and Super ZZT they were on a shareware CD and I ran them right off the cd. You obviously can't save, but it definitely was possible in Windows 95.
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hey where's the story about moose playing super zzt at day care so he wouldn't spend nap time playing with himself on ircman
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[I know, I know, this post is really old, sorry!] Anyways, if you do know what's causing this, or how to fix it, please help me! The next competition is coming in February, and the only reason I won last year is because no one else entered. If someone else enters, and my game doesn't work, I'm screwed. I was thinking about throwing it into a QEMU box, but I thought that might be too complicated.
Oh, and you guys seem to be lucky- I first played it off a 720k floppy! Came in a big Epic Megagames pack my friend across the street got in the mail.
Oh, and you guys seem to be lucky- I first played it off a 720k floppy! Came in a big Epic Megagames pack my friend across the street got in the mail.
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Ridiculous solution number 2: Run an Ubuntu LiveCD, sudo aptitude install dosbox, edit the config file to turn everything to max, run ZZT off of the RAM by quickly downloading it from a dropbox or something. Doesn't come close to touching the hard drive and avoids the usage of a USB disk. Or tell them to quite being whiny jackasses and accept that some things don't work the way they want them to and that's just life, dammit.