Return to Zork (DOS, Mac OS Classic)

Return to Zork
Developer: Activision Publisher: Infocom Platforms: DOS, Mac OS Classic Released internationally: September 15, 1993 This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences.

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To do: Lots of things... Lots of unused stuff: locations with images, items, graphics and animations (including photographs of places you cannot normally photograph, grues, and the mushroom people), digital dialogue lines, music, text for various deaths and some map locations. Much of the unused material is explained in the collection of design documents found here: design documents. Also refer to a discussion on the ScummVM forums.

Debug Function

By pressing F10, some numbers will appear in the top-left corner of the screen. These values change as NPCs in the game talk, so it may be to display what voice sample is currently playing.

Unused Music

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One MIDI song is not used anywhere in either version, intended for the "mushroom people" in the Forest of the Spirits. A Redbook Audio track is unused in the CD version, which consists of a medley that persumably was an earlier revision of the ending sequence.

Revisional Differences

To do: Where might v1.1 be? There was a special version release for the ReelMagic MPEG card that uses much higher-quality video and may have other changes, but it's exceptionally rare. Lots of changes between versions of games (DOS floppy, DOS CD, Macintosh, ReelMagic, etc.), including dialogue, background images, full motion video, even music changes between CD and floppy version due to the incorporation of about 30 digital audio tracks instead of MIDI being used. Note: The FMV uses in the realMagic version doesn't always match that of the DOS CD version -- different videos are selected in each.

A v1.2 patch was released on November 28, 1994.

• Fixes many small bugs and inconsistencies in the gameplay.
• Replaces several sound/music drivers.
• Fixes audio popping when used with Sound Blaster, LSE, ProAudio Spectrum, etc.