Zork, Nemesis

GoG sells the DOS version that works fine in dosbox. Just install using wine and move the installation directory away.
You, then, can use the included dosbox configuration file.

On the other hand, if you want the subtitles you are out of luck. The subtitles work only with the windows version that does not work on wine.


Zork, Great Inquisitor

Not tested by me, but according to km3k it does not work on wine and it is not dos based.

Yet, you can use a source port. Follow the instruction of the successive posts.

I can confirm that GOG's Zork Nemesis works fine in DOSBox on Linux. I recently played a little of it there.

Unfortunately, Zork Grand Inquisitor isn't DOS-based, and Wine doesn't work with it. I have some notes from my attempts to get it to run in Wine over at The Zork Library at http://thezorklibrary.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=498 If anyone has any other ideas on getting it running with Wine, post there or here.

It should be noted that someone named Marisa-Chan is working on a reimplementation of the Z-Vision engine for Linux. You can find the code at https://github.com/marisa-chan/Zengine . You will need to build it from source code yourself. The GOG version of ZGI worked fine, though I didn't play very far into the game with Marisa-Chan's Zengine, so I don't know that the game is completable.

Marisa-chan/Zengine is indeed interesting.
But I got a problem with using it; once cloned the repository I used make inside the directory ``Zengine/Engine/src''; make successfully makes Zengine and Zengine_wide executables.

Now, there is no help, no informations in the read me. I checked the main() function and it seems it is needed a directory of name Zork.dir. I should copy the whole Zork Nemesis or Zork Grand Inquisitor in a directory of that name?

From your message I get you already used Zengine, can you please share a little how to?

Ah yes, I forgot about to mention the setup part. This Zengine requires an existing ZGI or ZN installation that will be converted into more standard formats that this Zengine can use. Unfortunately, as of last time I checked, there's only a converter script for ZGI, not ZN. To do the conversion, go to Bin/autotool/linux/ in the your cloned git repo and run ./convert_zgi.pl /path/to/installed /path/to/converted

I assume you were able to make the zengine binary in Engine/src. Then run Zengine or Zengine_wide (for widescreen) with the path to your converted files as an argument.

Subtitles a part the situation is fine

Zork Nemesis works with dosbox; Zork Grand Inquisitor works with Marisa-chan engine. Reading how many support question are there I would say Linux wins this time ;)

Hello,

My laptop has just crashed and burned and all I have left is the EEEPC of my sister which runs under Lubuntu. Can someone, please, explain to me how to install Zork anthology under a Ubuntu-based distribution?

Thanks

xzip should work
http://www.eblong.com/zarf/xzip.html

You can try with the free Zork 1-3
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/

Edit: Zork1 worked fine to me.
Download the dos versions, you just need the data.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/download.html

Hello? Did you solve?

Rejoice. The Z-Engine is now v. 1.0!

Hmmm, I would love to see this for windows. Especially if it is made to not be depended on CPU speed.

I could not use it even in Linux... I am afraid I need a little more to understand how the step ``1. Copy files from disks likes as on windows.'' applies to gog installers.

I hope km3k that obviously knows the project will post a foolproof guide.