This is how I got Z (not z95) to work on XP

[KISSMAD]

im sorry to say this but this forum is kinda dead

If you had of searched the forums you would of found out that no one uses the Dos Box way of playing the game.

Do yourself a favour and read this thread.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=486&p=4177#p4177

[PCnoob]

thx man for the link...actually my purpose to write that was to get some attention..hehehe hope you wont mind...

[R.P.D.]

Hi, as you see i'm new here and indeed this site is the best i have found for the Z.

I did everything as you said and the game runs as it sould. The videos are greate and the sound works fine. But, when i press the "NEW GAME" the video plays. When the video ends, it starts to loading the Level 01. When the Level is ready the game send me in a black screen with a text that it says:


Critical File Missing: MAIN.PAC
COMMANDER ZOD SHOOTS PIRATES AT DAWN!
PLEASE READ COPYRIGHT MESSAGE IN MANUAL

C:\>



Any idea? Thanks anyway.

p.s. The same problem faced 2 or 3 persons before me in this forum but there was no solution from anyone.

[Meeky]

R.P.D.
What verson are you playing - DOS?
Then download Z CD with expansion kit and Antares patch with removes CD-checks and enables running on XP & Vista without any DOS Emulators such as Dosbox: Z95 original CD game get it here

[R.P.D.]

It works! Thanks m8s! It's too good to be true !!!

I can't w8 to see the new levels, but of course after i finish with the old ones !

p.s. Keep up the great work and this fine forum.

[Meeky]

You can see additional 15 single play levels in the menu at Tom's screenshot posted in the same topic:
viewtopic.php?p=4174#p4174

[damo.dude]

ok well im useing dosbox and dnt have a cd writer so could someone PLEASE give me a step by step guide on how to get it to work PLEEEEASE lol would really apreciate it

[lil' T]

Does this help you? (click here)

[damo.dude]

coool will look at tht laters lol looks like alot to do and my daughters at tht age where shes on the go

[Solouko]

Ok, jsut had this same problem, and i solved it really easily!

the main.pac is on the CD right, so, I put the CD in my CDROM drive then edited the dosbox config file to look at it with this line:

"mount D I:\ -t cdrom"

because I:z is my CD drive, on your PC it's like... X or Y or something crazy so jsut ahve a play and it should be sorted!
I only use dosbox for Z so my dosbox config file's configured for Z alone so when I load Dosbox i get Z.

"[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount C C:\DOSGAME\Z
mount D I:\ -t cdrom
C:
Z.BAT"

that's the end of my dosbox config file if it's any help.

[KISSMAD]

With DOSBox 0.74, the intros and cut scenes now play.

[guyverthree]

This seems to be the most active thread on the forum

I am looking at compiling the open source version from Freaknigh.

So far i have gotten most of the library's that i think I need and have build environments for Linux and Windows.

If anyone has any hints or tips they wish to dispense I would love to hear them.