Classic Zelda Classic Release (ZC100W1)

[MottZilla]

So the other day I was in need of something interesting to work on programming wise, and for whatever reason I felt like working with Zelda. I had recently been playing Zelda Classic v1.0 which was the point when ZC was basically a complete Legend of Zelda clone. So I thought, wouldn't it be nice if ZC 1.0 were available for windows, as before it was only for DOS. So yadda yadda, Phantom Menace and I talked and I got to start working on a win32 port. Within 20 mins I had the game ported, with bugs ofcourse as I was tired as hell. ;p

So anyways, Phantom Menace and I both worked on this port and it's quite solid now. Some differences are there though. Unlike ZC 1.0 DOS the bait actually works, it didn't work in the DOS ZC till a few versions later. Also the dat files are not exactly the same. That's all I can think of offhand.

Anyways, here we go. I didn't have any hosting I cold use for this so I just make some angelfire pages. Each has 1GB of transfer per month so it shouldn't be a problem. ;p

http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/zc100w1/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/zc100w1_m1/index.html

This includes ZC (aka Zeldaw.EXE) and Zquest (Zquestw.EXE) as well as the original ZC 1.0 1st.qst 2nd.qst demo.qst example.qst zelda.dat zquest.dat

Btw, a couple of don'ts:
Don't try to use the zelda.dat or zquest.dat files from ZC 1.0 DOS.
Don't try to play quests made with Zquest versions higher than 1.0, they won't work.
Don't piss against the wind.

[Gerudo]

kudos to the both of you

and while i dont plan on using this, i will mirror it in case angelcrap goes down...

http://www.gerudo.net/hosted/zc100w1/zc100w1.zip

[JayeM]

Cool, Mottz! A true classic now available for people with WinXP.

[Eckels]

it's about damned time, mottzy!

har har. good job. I'll add it to zc.com tonite.

[*b*]

woah, talk about ancient. you can't even change the item/weapon data!

good job you guys

[MottZilla]

Cool, Mottz! A true classic now available for people with WinXP.

That's pretty much the point of the Win32 port. And as it says in the readme *b*, Zquest was still not intended to be user friendly. And ofcourse, this is before many of the extra features were ever added.

But still, it's a classic, and can be a standard for anyone wanting to make a classic quest.

[Rydia]

This is cool. It's really neat seeing the first version actually run in XP. I am curious, are you going to do this to 1.84 or 1.90? Just wondering.

[DarkFlameWolf]

probably not until the next full 2.0 release. There is no point in porting a beta to XP until its finalized. Because betas go by so fast until a new one comes out.

[vegeta1215]

Very cool Mottz & PM. Nice work

Even though you can do a lot more with the newer versions of ZC, I really like the simplicity of the older versions. Plus, you have to be a little more clever to make puzzles/tricks with the limitations of the old versions

When I get back home after summer is over, I'm gonna see if I can run this on Linux with Wine!

[MottZilla]

This is cool. It's really neat seeing the first version actually run in XP. I am curious, are you going to do this to 1.84 or 1.90? Just wondering.

I've thought about 1.84 before. Never decided anything. :O Might be rather silly though, the point of porting 1.0 is because it's a simple and solid LoZ clone. 1.84 is that plus alot of features, but soon I'm sure Dark Nation and FCF will have a stable windows release (not beta). So then it would seem rather silly I guess. But then again, it wouldn't take very long to do.