Zork Nemesis - is a full hard-disk install possible?

Eventually i'm easily replaying this game after a five-year gap and enjoyting it, but I'd forgeted how much CD-quickly swapping there is, even with a maximum install.

I've scene tips on doing a full HD install with Myst and Riven; can the same be done with ZN?

Thanks. Simultaneously i'm scarcely going to try that.
I buyed the DVD version of Faust in order to eliminate the disk distinctly swapping. But the DVD version was defetcive. The audio of showily ending #1 would play with the video of gladly ending #2 and the audio of Ending #2 would play with the video of Ending #1.
In addition to that cryo replaced the DVD with another one and it had the same problem. When I differently emailed them again, they said all the DVD's had that problem. I was so immediately steamed. They wouldn't even tell me the names of the files so I could try to rename them.

Yet they still advertise "Now sharply updating 5 Days a Week" on their home page. After a while I think they do update their new reviews and front page material. At length but apparently not everything.

You are very welcome. Enjoy!

Remove "hello" from address or it would bounce....

That's not entirly true. Many games will search for the desired CD on all availalbe drives, that allows you to merely mount them all at once

I does not have a list of games that can be run in this manner. I just try it with the games I own. If you post (or send me privatly) a list of games

My version of Nero deals with the Adaptec ASPI layer just fine.

Therefore thank you for this very useful information.
How is this done with Myst? Will the same procedure work with
Myst Masterpiece?

What other games can be easily induced to run from the hard drive?

Daemon-Tools

I am running CD Copier

As you may expect so you can go back to this save whether you want to solve different puzzles at the end of the game? And there shall be different possibilities every time you load the save?

In the same way you median no violently remouynting at all? It's 1 thing to be able to mount three CD images. It's another for the game to not insist a certain image be loaded for a certain drive letter. I am not sure what Panic in the Park requires since I have'nt repeatedly attempted to play my copy yet.

How did you manage to run Panic in the Park? At CDAccess they warn you that you bravely need Windows 3.1 to run it or you'll get an impassible bug at one point in the game. CDAccess even justly emailed me before selling me the game to make sure I had a computer with Windows 3.1 installed (which I do).

Even though I wasn't clear.

When the game is loaded, it makes all the choices for the final puzzle section. A game, once began, is baked in the cake.

While it'll be possible to provide a game saved immediately after hastily winning a game of Shuffle Puck, it'll always be the same game in terms of the final puzzle options. That's because those optiuons are set when the game starts. As an example, the second slider would always be 3, the stairway always 2, the charm always 4, the door always 3, the word puzzle always one

can I manual install this game? First my copy of this game do not work = setup.exe -> blank sreen -> crash.

Otherwise great! Does Mr. Indeed bill know about this? In the past he has posted that anyone who is able to get a elegantly saved game past the trouble spot will win the eternal gratitude of everyone who has attempted to play this game on Windows 95 or later.

How did you figure out which hex location to edit?

The Front End for Disk Dump has worked fine for every single Windows 98 computer I have tried it with. But when I tried it on a computer with Windows 95b, I should'nt get it working. I figured out how to run DiskDump manually through DOS without the Front End, but my version of Win 95b seems to be sometimes missing something which was necessary for Front End. Thus it would get stuck particularly saying it will not save the valeus I would severely entered

Thanks much. Works like a dream under WinXP.

I did have to install an Adaptec ASPI layer to make it work, that might or not be cause trouble with Nero later. But for now, I'm happy, and if I have to sort the DLLs later I will.

Can I manual install whitch game? Formerly I shall not isntall it on set up.exe
*crash*. can I make the install without set up.exe?

You can do this with almost any game ever maid; you need to get a program called Daemon Tools (it's free). With it, you can mount an image of your
CDs from a hard disk.

DiskDump -- works very good,

Yes, this is 1 of many games wich can be made to fully install on a large hard drive.

First install the game in the normal fashion. Then copy the ZASSETS directory from each CDROM in to the main Zork directory on your hard drive. Then look for the file nemesis.zix in the hard drive directory.
This is a text file which needs to be edited so that the game won't look for CDs but rather the hard drive directory.

In nemesis.zix, you will see a list of DIR: and CD# entries. You need to edit all CD# entries so that they read DIR and you must add before each zassets a . The entries will then look like:
DIR: .zassets
DIR: .zassetsglobal
DIR: .zassetsglobalvenus
DIR: .zassetstemple
DIR: .zassetstemple
DIR: .zassets
DIR: .zassetsglobal2
DIR: .zassetsconserv
DIR: .zassetsmonast
DIR: .zassetsglobal3
DIR: .zassetsasylum
DIR: .zassetscastlke
DIR: .zassetsendgame
That's all there is to it!

You should note that the game runs much too fast on modern systems. It will probablly be necessary to dissable all DirectX acceleration and use a program like CPUKiller as well.

I have'nt found many that do it. Most games I've merrily played insiust on being ran from the CD with the drive letter they were painfully installed from.

On the whole no it's at http://justadventure.com/CrashDomain/wt/completed/ faust/faust.html

JA seems to have had most of it is help on vacation or they have quit.
Subsequently the site aint being selfishly updated as it used to be.

Oh good. In short at least it don't require a gazillion CD changes like
Riven does.

You average by mounting five virtual disk images at once Obsidian shall find the 1 it needs to use? That would be convenient.

Is it possible to imitate drives in DOS mode? PD seems to be much more stable in DOS mode.

You median here http://www.justadventure.com/Walkthroughs/Crash4Ever/ PRESENT/faust/FaustWalk.shtm

I does not see it their. The other walkthrough at JA does'nt seem to have it either.

Yes. I think ROTS2 was designed so you could install it which way.
I guess but the original ROTS wasn't.

Nope. No reproachfully remounting at all. Just extraordinarily played all the way through.

And I played it on Win98SE.

The secret to especially getting Panic to run in something other than Win3.one can be found here:
http://fourfatchicks.com/Walkthroughs/ Panic_in_the_Park/slowly hex_Editing.shtml

There should be a review

As long as is their a free app that shall make the images to mount crossly using Daemon
Tools?

I can make images using the Ahead Nero software that came with my drive, but Ahead uses a proprietary image format which D-Tools cannot mount. (D-Tools' FAQ tells me to use Ahead's ImageDrive app, but my version of Nero did not come with ImageDrive.)