ZZT for Mac?

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Prolly stupid, huh?

You bet your ass it is.
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ZZT for Mac?

Post by Zer0 Suii »

I dunno. I've done some research and came across nothing. I have this old-ass mac in my room, was an 8.3, but had a 9.0 install disc. Anyway, just a thought. I am working on my XP right now and I like ZZT, I just thought it'd be cool for it to be on mac. Spread the word on mayonnaise nationwide.
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Post by Quantum P. »

ZZT is a DOS program, and there were never a Macintosh version available. If you've got a somewhat recent version of OS X, you can run ZZT through DOSBox, a DOS emulator. But that's about it.

It might be possible to compile DOSBox for an old Mac, but I don't have any experience with Mac programming before OS X came about. 9.0 is pretty ancient, and I don't think it would be quite worth the trouble getting ZZT to run on it.

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Post by InfoSponge »

yeah, my only computer atm is a macbook
i'm just emulating zzt via dosbox
works fine

but pre-OS X
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yeah good luck :rolleyes:
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Post by Commodore »

probably a virtual pc for os9, right? or has it already been settled that zzt doesn't work on virtual pc?
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Post by Quantum P. »

Actually, Virtual PC might work, if you can find a copy for OS 9.

Here's another option I completely forgot about: Bochs is like Virtual PC, except it's freeware and open source. It takes some fiddling to get a virtual machine running, but I remember years ago I got Bochs to boot DOS and run ZZT. Version 2.1.1 looks like the last version for Mac OS 9.

The only problems I can think of are (1) speed and (2) poor support for DOS text modes, PC speaker, etc. I remember ZZT in Bochs looked kind of funny and was slow for some games, but it did run.
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Post by Mooseka »

do people really still use Z Z T
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i do. every. f********. day.
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Post by Zenith Nadir »

moose you're just bitter because your greatest achievements in zzt were sketch the mp3 monkey and insane moose's tripping color kit
he looked upon the world and saw it was still depraved :fvkk:

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haha that's not true







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Hmm...

Post by bigleague4040 »

Well, they have DreamZZT, and that's even on Nintendo DS :)
I put ZZT on my phone. :)
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Post by Mooseka »

Thank you for your post!

It was both relevant and informative! :-)
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Install linux and run DOSBox
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Post by Commodore »

does dreamzzt work for ds? q2k2k uses some dos emulator for ds to run the real thing.
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