T-Zero?

[Jacob Nevins]

I'm interested in trying the 1992 shareware game T-Zero
<http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=u8qqrwutdugkexpr>.

It comes as a .EXE and some .DAT files. Is there some way of playing
it with a standard interpreter? The assigned IFID in IFDB (but nothing
else) suggests that someone thinks it's a HUGO game, but renaming the
.DAT files to .hex and feeding them to Gargoyle doesn't work.

Otherwise I guess I'd have to emulate it, which is a bit of a pain as
it's 16-bit DOS and I'm on amd64 Linux.

[Mike Snyder]

"Jacob Nevins" <jac...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
news:asu*Pi...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...

I'm pretty familiar with Hugo. I loaded the game and tried a few commands,
and nothing about it works like a Hugo game. I'm not sure what that means in
the IFID, but as far as I can tell, it's home brewed. Pretty good one,
though, from a few turns in.

--- Mike.

[Eriorg]

It definitely can't be a Hugo game if it's from 1991 or 1992: Hugo was
only released in 1995! And indeed, a review (at
http://www.syntax2000.co.uk/issues/31/tzero.rev.txt ) from SynTax
Adventure Magazine #31 (1994) says this: "T-Zero has been programmed
from scratch by the author without the use of an adventure-writing
utility like AGT or TADS."

I guess the IFID is just a bug from IFDB.

[Paolo Lucchesi]

Jacob Nevins wrote:
> Otherwise I guess I'd have to emulate it, which is a bit of a pain as
> it's 16-bit DOS and I'm on amd64 Linux.

Probably DOSBox will do the trick. I tried a few moves (on Ubuntu on
32bit Intel, but it should work anyway), and it works.

bye
--
Paolo Lucchesi

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[Adam Thornton]

So good, I had misremembered it as a Graham Cluely game.

Yeah, it was well done. I concur with the suggestion that DOSBox is the
way to go.

Adam