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I suppose certain software without much public want, sites such as the zork one above are able to stay up. It can be hard to work out what is freely redistributable dos software and what is not, since 'freeware' is a pretty general term, and there are hundreds of websites offering 'freeware' dos titles-and I havent even mentioned the likes of ebay yet with users often selling entire dvds of similar material, dos and beyond. Ive just clicked on that text and it states the opposite, that they are in no way linked to the original developer/publisher. I think the infocom logo in the centre of the screen upon loading the first page (and the 'copyright and disclaimer' text at the bottom) suggested at first that it was an officially led infocom site. Yes, thats the one-its been up for a long time. Perhaps Im wondering about this too much, but if a '.bat' file is missing, is it actually possible to create one to get programs that may be missing a dat, to run? Im assuming the ms-dos '.com' files may be just as necessary though Reply 3 of 9, by ripsaw8080 The bat seems to be the dos launcher, but I do not know what the '.com' files are for (ms-dos application files). Im assuming if I was wanting the game to run under dosbox or dosbox game launcher then I would have needed the missing files that wouldve been present with the original dos version together with the dat, since I could not get the dat to work with anything non-Frotz on its own? Ive just checked the official zork website as an example and the dat file comes with a single '.bat' and a few '.com' files, but little else. The Frotz software ran the dat with no problems. I didnt need any other files after all, just the single dat file. Thanks for any help Reply 1 of 9, by DosFreak
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exe files to run in dosbox (or by unzipping them and running them in dosbox games launcher) but am having trouble with the rest. so Im not really sure what is a legitimate file and what is not. Im assuming that the website I got the dos files from probably thought that the dat was all that was needed? Looking through some other dos software, I also have single file '.exe', '.sol', or '.com' extensions etc within zips. I may be wrong, but one ubuntu website (4th post down on second link) seems to suggest that a single dat will run on a program called Frotz, from The zips I have were from a website that had dos freeware a while back, to run on pc.
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The zip was just missing the other files. How do I get them to work, is it impossible? I thought I had downloaded a version made for another device, or the extension was wrong (for zork), but I found out that the single dat within the zip was identical to the dat from the official zork website. Shadow Warrior 2 is their free anniversary gift!! So grab it if you don't own it yet.I know I can get versions that I can run in dosbox, but I have copies of old games, eg text adventures, which are a zip containing nothing but a single ".dat" file.
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