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md5 · Post by **md5** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:22 pm

Thanks for the MD5 checksum, I've added it to the latest SVN version (the MD5 checksum is the same as the one of the English version). Would it also be possible to install the game via its original installer and supply the MD5 of rtzcd.dat as well? (cause we don't have that entry)

(rtzcd.red is the compressed version, whereas rtzcd.dat is the uncompressed version of rtzcd.red, created from the game's installer)

Dark-Star · Post by **Dark-Star** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:52 pm

I will try installing it tonight.

Thanks for the quick addition into the source code. But now I remember why I didn't play this game back at the time I got it: The translation is horrible: who translated "the sign" in the first screen (referring to a signpost) into "das Zeichen"? It looks like they used some cheap web translation tool for the job:

I'm not going to comment on the translation of "put the stone in the inventory" ("Den Stein ins Lager legen")... And these are all things I found on the first screen... I don't even want to think about what awaits me further into the game...

Oh, and the german characters are not shown correctly (or rather, not at all), see for example this image:

It should read "Berpaß" and not "Bergpa"

I wonder if I can grab a cheap english copy of the game on eBay...

Dark-Star · Post by **Dark-Star** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:02 pm

Here's the MD5 of the .dat file, taken from a fresh install in DosBox (complete with complimentary Bad Translations(tm))

"rtzcd.dat", "9d740378da2d16e83d0d0efff01bf83a", 525824

aculotarpa · Post by **aculotarpa** » Wed May 21, 2008 2:47 pm

I have an original italian version: wich files you need the MD5 hash of?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:24 pm

Point ScummVM to the folder where your Italian version is and ScummVM will tell you the required MD5s in its console window

clem · Post by **clem** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:04 pm

Perhaps it'll be possible to override the broken strings with valid ones in ScummVM? (Beneath a Steel Sky patches at least one translation error on-the-fly)

aculotarpa · Post by **aculotarpa** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:53 am

If I did everything correct, the 1.2 italian version is as following

"rtzcd.red", "946997d8b0aa6cb4e848bad02a1fc3d2", 354971
"rtzcd.dat", "5b86035aed0277f96e3d173542b5364a", 523776

aculotarpa · Post by **aculotarpa** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:32 am

I've checked today the PC snapshot and it recognizes the italian version. ScummVM ask me to chose beween the english or german version, I selected english and all seems to works fine.
TNX

GoodOldGeorg · Post by **GoodOldGeorg** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:08 am

Return to Zork language detection.

Sources :
*.red files : Copy in the original CDs.
*.dat files : I install all CDs with DOSBox v0.72.

Format - "file name", "md5deep -r -p 5000 value", "file size" [full size md5hash value]

// Return to Zork - English CD version 1.1 12/7/93
"rtzcd.red", "c4e2430e6b6c6ff1562a80fb4a9df24c", 276466 [56e5811fdcf83b056322664998a4401e]
// Return to Zork - English CD version 1.1 12/7/93 ( installed )
"rtzcd.dat", "a1db8c97a78dae10f91d356f16ad07b8", 536064 [f3fd89a6d6931f7fd27c6d65d1215157]
// Return to Zork - English CD version 1.2 9/29/94
"rtzcd.red", "946997d8b0aa6cb4e848bad02a1fc3d2", 276584 [31cd9197a352f58904fd8ea9ddc7924d]
// Return to Zork - English CD version 1.2 9/29/94 ( installed )
"rtzcd.dat", "a1db8c97a78dae10f91d356f16ad07b8", 536064 [f5c3c3740e9a20bbb26f7f952cf020bd]
// Return to Zork - Italian CD version 1.2 3/31/95
"rtzcd.red", "946997d8b0aa6cb4e848bad02a1fc3d2", 354971 [6417ef49c1928fe3771383fd68c397bd]
// Return to Zork - Italian CD version 1.2 3/31/95 ( installed )
"rtzcd.dat", "5b86035aed0277f96e3d173542b5364a", 523776 [6e58e0287e923915b4bd16cd66898ad5]
// Return to Zork - German CD version 1.2 4/18/95
"rtzcd.red", "946997d8b0aa6cb4e848bad02a1fc3d2", 355442 [89fea15dc4f81d15b43ae11ef59654be]
// Return to Zork - German CD version 1.2 4/18/95 ( installed )
"rtzcd.dat", "9d740378da2d16e83d0d0efff01bf83a", 525824 [c5ab04d1d4db2da70275f65de2b3fb99]
// Return to Zork - French CD version 1.2 5/13/95
"rtzcd.red", "946997d8b0aa6cb4e848bad02a1fc3d2", 354614 [028d74c840f8ad6182218606c16ea88b]
// Return to Zork - French CD version 1.2 5/13/95 ( installed )
"rtzcd.dat", "bde8251a8e34e87c54e3f93147d56c9e", 523776 [1c6c0c72db84cceba5d9924c454235a6]

zmally · Post by **zmally** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:59 pm

My version isn't recognised:

"rtzcd.red", "c4e2430e6b6c6ff1562a80fb44a9df24c"

It's the UK English standalone version, none of the other Zork games on the disc or anything. My RTZCD file is 270KB.

Hope I've helped

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:14 pm

I also have an unrecognised version.

It's a UK English CD that came with a CD-ROM drive many many years ago.

"rtzcd.red", "c4e2430e6b6c6ff1562a80fb4a9df24c", 276466

zmally · Post by **zmally** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:19 pm

zmally wrote:My version isn't recognised:

"rtzcd.red", "c4e2430e6b6c6ff1562a80fb44a9df24c"

It's the UK English standalone version, none of the other Zork games on the disc or anything. My RTZCD file is 270KB.

Hope I've helped

For anyone interested, I can confirm in v1.0 this version of RTZ runs FLAWLESSLY!! Even better than it did on my machine back in the day! Well done all involved, fantastic work!

KOSTAS · Post by **KOSTAS** » Sun May 30, 2010 1:12 pm

Whether subtitles are supported during the game ?