https://virtuallyfun.com/2007/05/15/zork-lives-on-the-altair/ Fun with Virtualization Sat, 12 May 2012 10:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://virtuallyfun.com/2007/05/15/zork-lives-on-the-altair/comment-page-1/#comment-12403 Sat, 12 May 2012 10:06:07 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=38#comment-12403 This is an old trick: if you’ve got any other version 3 Infocom story files and do not have an executable (.COM) interpreter, you can play these by changing the story name with a hex editor. Pick either ZORK1.COM, ZORK2.COM or ZORK3.COM, copy it to the new name (e.g. do ‘PIP SUSPEND.COM=ZORK1.COM’) and change bytes 0x0005 – 0x000C to the name of the story file, minus the ‘.DAT’ suffix. To play Suspended, I changed ‘ZORK1’ to ‘SUSPEND’ and named the Suspended story file ‘SUSPEND.DAT’. I got the story file from the ‘Lost Treasures Of Infocom’ pack.

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