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by Herigimo_Buckwort
Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:01 pm
Forum: Zork Help
Topic: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP
Replies: 14
Views: 31272

Re: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP

I think I'm starting to sort this out?! Problem was as i read line "A" of your "CD How-To Install ZGI" i took it that when running <setup.exe> it would automatically create a folder ZGI_CD on c:\ (and only if <setup.exe> did not work were you to follow step 2) This i did only to ...
by Herigimo_Buckwort
Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:07 pm
Forum: Zork Help
Topic: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP
Replies: 14
Views: 31272

Re: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP

Hi, I'v successfully printed to file (3) desktop views of what is on c:\ a. before using i:\setup.exe b. after using i:\setup.exe c. after using i:\setup.exe (files that are in zgi_mx) I was wondering if i cannot send these three attachments to you via <Post a Reply> can i email them to you as attac...
by Herigimo_Buckwort
Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:17 pm
Forum: Zork Help
Topic: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP
Replies: 14
Views: 31272

Re: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP

Hello: I'm going to re-load ZGI because for one i'm experiencing some problems within the game i.e the game does not save; their appears to be some problem with the tools; and it hangs up. Also , if i re-load as per script we will recreate former situation of those files outside of the folder ZGI_CD...
by Herigimo_Buckwort
Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:57 pm
Forum: Zork Help
Topic: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP
Replies: 14
Views: 31272

Re: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP

Brilliant!! ZGI is finally loaded and it WORKS! First I want to express my sincere thanks, your walkthrough worked brilliantly! My only regret is that i did not contact you earlier it would have saved a lot of late nights and much hair pulling. Again, thank you. One thing i did note that may or may...
by Herigimo_Buckwort
Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:31 pm
Forum: Zork Help
Topic: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP
Replies: 14
Views: 31272

Re: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP

Thank you for all of the above, i'll dump those previous methods and start afresh!!
Hope you won't have to hear from me again??
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by Herigimo_Buckwort
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:40 pm
Forum: Zork Help
Topic: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP
Replies: 14
Views: 31272

Re: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP

Hello and thank you for your help; So I can maybe make some progress at last I have a question or two, please: 1. The ZGI Walkthrough speaks about running <zgi.cmd> (which i did do), does this not automatically edit those specific files you mentioned. 2. When i looked in the ZGI directory on my C: d...
by Herigimo_Buckwort
Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:14 pm
Forum: Zork Help
Topic: Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP
Replies: 14
Views: 31272

Zork Grand Inquisitor's ongoing battle with Win XP

Hello All; I've been a fan of Zork since I was first introduced via 'Nemesis' some years back. I have played ZGI on an older machine that supporting Win'95/98 but I'm currently trying to load and run it on my Win XP machine with 'much' difficulty. The trouble is this: After getting ZGI fully loaded ...