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"Best ZZT", from a shareware disk found in a good will

#1 User is offline   GetDizzy 

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Posted 01 June 2017 - 09:08 PM

This appears to be a unique shareware copy of ZZT with two ZZT worlds titled "Best of ZZT". Unlike one might think, it's not a compilation, but instead is two unique games which are... fairly standard Town of ZZT clone fare. Not very fun.

More interesting is this is the only copy of ZZT I've ever seen where the editor is completely locked out. It is literally impossible to get into the editor on this version, pressing E on the title screen just causes the title screen to redraw.

This came from a cd full of shareware games that I got in a good will for $2. It was full of interesting stuff, some good (Descent, Jazz Jackrabbit), some terrible (most of it, honestly)

Killer Bees was a standout among the terrible games just for being ridiculous.


I streamed it for a bit, I'll probably have an archival unedited video of it on youtube soonish.

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Posted 06 June 2017 - 11:17 PM

Oh, I remember the Best of ZZT worlds. They've been around for a while. Didn't know that they made a launcher specifically for those, without an editor, though. That's pretty interesting; I thought the source code to ZZT had been lost.
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Posted 09 June 2017 - 05:00 AM

I think it is possible to disable the editor by editing the configuration file ZZT.CFG
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