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.