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Posted: **Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:45 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:43 am**

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.

Welcome to z2, by the way!

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:03 am**

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

but pre-OS X
....
yeah good luck

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:53 pm**

probably a virtual pc for os9, right? or has it already been settled that zzt doesn't work on virtual pc?

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:47 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:11 pm**

do people really still use Z Z T

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:18 am**

i do. every. f********. day.

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:22 am**

moose you're just bitter because your greatest achievements in zzt were sketch the mp3 monkey and insane moose's tripping color kit

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:03 am**

haha that's not true

oh. :(

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:48 pm**

Well, they have DreamZZT, and that's even on Nintendo DS :)

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:56 pm**

Thank you for your post!

It was both relevant and informative! :-)

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:08 am**

It's a shame DreamZZT hasn't been updated for a while. And their bugtracker is getting spammed.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:48 am**

Install linux and run DOSBox

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:59 am**

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

z2

ZZT for Mac?

ZZT for Mac?

Hmm...