Lost Treasures of Infocom on CP/M

Hello All,

I thought I would share this in case others are interested.

I've always wanted to be able to run the Infocom Adventure Game "The Lurking Horror" on my TRS-80 Model II.

I read in an online thread somewhere that if you take a working copy of Zork for CP/M, and copy the *.DAT file from another Infocom game overtop of the ZORK1.DAT file, as long as it doesn't require a higher Z Machine version, it will work.

I tried it. From the MSDOS Infocom collections "Lost Treasures of Infocom" and "Lost Treasures of Infocom II", I was able to run a total of 19 different games. Every game that had a *.DAT file of 128K or smaller ran fine with ZORK1.COM.

I copied all of the *.DAT files onto the hard disk of my TRS-80 Model II and can choose whichever game I want by copying the file over. I'm using Pickles and Trout CP/M ver 2.2mH. I'd like to think this would work with any CP/M machine.

Hope this is of use!

Best regards,
Kevin