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ZZT (debut game from Epic MegaGames) using Turbo Pascal (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 12.03.2023, 07:12

So apparently Apogee's Kroz was loosely inspired by BSD's Rogue, and Epic MegaGames' ZZT was inspired by Kroz.

Rogue (1980) was written in C while it inspired Moria (1983), which was written in VMS Pascal. Both Kroz (1987) and ZZT (1991) were written in Turbo Pascal for DOS.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20020126190941/http://www.epicgames.com:80/zzt.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20011005115053im_/http://www.epicgames.com/images/zzt/zzt01.gif

* http://zzt.org/
* Ancient DOS Games #203: ZZT (YouTube)

* https://github.com/asiekierka/reconstruction-of-zzt
* https://github.com/asiekierka/almost-of-zzt

* https://github.com/asiekierka/zeta (small DOS emulator only for ZZT)
* https://github.com/cknave/kevedit (still supports DOS host)
* https://github.com/benhoyt/zztgo (used his own pas2go converter)

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• ZZT (debut game from Epic MegaGames) using Turbo Pascal - Rugxulo, 12.03.2023, 07:12 (Developers)