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Hello I own the gog version of this game and I encounter problems running the game in Dosbox on Windows 7 64 bit Home Edition. I have tried to run this game using Scummvm 1.7.0 but have had no lcuk so far. So I was wondering if any one knows how to run this version of the game in Scummvm?
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druidium: Hello I own the gog version of this game and I encounter problems running the game in Dosbox on Windows 7 64 bit Home Edition. I have tried to run this game using Scummvm 1.7.0 but have had no lcuk so far. So I was wondering if any one knows how to run this version of the game in Scummvm?
I don't run Windows myself, and I don't own the GOG version of the game, but the "Daily Snapshot" build of ScummVM might work, using [url=http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Data_files#Zork_Nemesis:_The_Forbidden_Lands]these instructions from the ScummVM wiki[/url].

Last I tried, the game (and Zork Grand Inquisitor) seemed to run fairly well with only a few minor glitches. But it's been a while since I tried.
Well I never found a way to run this game using Scummvm. How ever I found an alternative which is just as good for all of you running Windows 7 64 bit and having problems running both Zork Nemesis - The Forbidden Lands and Zork Grand Inquisitor using Dosbox, this is the solution that works. Just google marisa-chan/zengine/wiki should be the first site listed on google. I would provide a link directly to the site but GoG will not allow me to.
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druidium: Well I never found a way to run this game using Scummvm. How ever I found an alternative which is just as good for all of you running Windows 7 64 bit and having problems running both Zork Nemesis - The Forbidden Lands and Zork Grand Inquisitor using Dosbox, this is the solution that works. Just google marisa-chan/zengine/wiki should be the first site listed on google. I would provide a link directly to the site but GoG will not allow me to.
As noted on the main GitHub page for it, that is the game engine that was merged into the development version of ScummVM. I know the ScummVM version works around some minor glitches (and quite possibly introduces some new of its own), though at the moment the difference between them probably isn't that great. So whichever works...
I tried running Scummvm and selecting the game folder that gog installed the game to on my computer, Scummvm did not recognize any files that would allow the game to run on my computer. This I was I had to find an alternative way to play the game. All so why I was originally asking for help on how to play this game using the installed gog version of this game using Scummvm.
Post edited July 12, 2015 by druidium
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druidium: I tried running Scummvm and selecting the game folder that gog installed the game to on my computer, Scummvm did not recognize any files that would allow the game to run on my computer.
You can check if ScummVM has any chance of running it by starting it and pressing the About... button. It should show a list of "Available engines" (you can press Shift to speed up the scrolling a bit, and Alt to make it scroll the other direction). The one for Nemesis and Grand Inquisitor is called "Z-Vision", and since they're listed alphabetically it should be the last one in the list.

The latest development build (version number 1.8-something) should have it. The latest stable build (version number 1.7-something) almost certainly doesn't.
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eriktorbjorn: As noted on the main GitHub page for it, that is the game engine that was merged into the development version of ScummVM. I know the ScummVM version works around some minor glitches (and quite possibly introduces some new of its own), though at the moment the difference between them probably isn't that great. So whichever works...
Yeah! I also played Zork Nemesis with the zengine. I wanted to play it on an antique 1st generation Netbook with Windows XP and the processor wasn't fast enough for windows and DOSbox. So ZEngine was a great solution.

As far as i can remember the installation was a bit hacky, but the game run smooth and i've played it through with out any issues.

On an Windows XP machine i would suggest the original ZEngine. You can download binaries and it was build and tested for this case.
For Windows Vista and newer, MacOS, or Linux a current development snapshot from ScummVM might be the better way, but there may be dragons.
I can't get it to run in scummvm either the screen's as tiny as the gog install