Browse Detail - Utility
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MS-DOS Program to convert a GIF image into ANSI.
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ASC2BRD is a small utility that can be used for converting ASCII and ANSI graphic screens to ZZT boards (60 characters on each line in an ASCII/ANSI file because of ZZT's board size). This can be very useful if you draw using an ANSI drawing utility, such as TheDraw.
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A TSR program for MS-DOS which allows an ASCII character reference to be displayed by hitting ALT+A at any time. Useful when ZZTing to quickly find character numbers for the #char command. Editors other than ZZT's default tend to incorporate this functionality natively.
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A program to force ZZT (and other DOS text mode programs) to use high-intensity background colors rather than blinking colors. While still useful on vintage hardware, the Zeta emulator and many ZZT source ports allow toggling of blinking directly.
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MS-DOS program to convert images drawn with the program "The Draw" to ZZT boards. The Draw is also included with this zip file.
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A modification of ZZT which removes the sound effect played when the player touches water, as well as the messages from touching water, fake walls, or forest. Due to the way this program makes its modifications, a successor, "CleenZZT" provides the same functionality without any quirks.
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Modified ZZT.EXE that removes the water sound and the messages for water, fakes and forest just like CleanZZT, but without disrupting other message and sound routines when you touch them (via modified Reconstruction of ZZT source code)!
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A character set editor for MS-DOS which was the definitive way for ZZTers to provide custom graphics for their games. Generates ".COM" files which load the font into memory, which can then be displayed in ZZT. These files are supported by Zeta, but considered a legacy format. MegaZeux's character set editor (see digitalmzx.com) can be used to create ".CHR" files which are the preferred format for distributing character sets today.
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An alternative font editor for creating custom character sets that can be used with ZZT. MegaZeux's character set editor (see digitalmzx.com) can be used to create ".CHR" files which are the preferred format for distributing character sets today.
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Plays ZZM music files. Now with better representation of 64th notes, better screen updating, and many other features. Does not appear to list files correctly in DosBox leading to crashes.
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iBag is a utility created by the mastermind behind games such as Voyage of Four and Banana Quest, WiL. It makes creating inventory-managing objects in ZZT less troubling. Inventory systems have been used in many games (eg. Fantasy World Dizzy) and this utility will make your inventory-creating easier. It's not very complicated to use, provided you read the instructions thoroughly.
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A ZZT file manager. Create categories and use them to organize your ZZT worlds. The vague documentation makes this very difficult to use.
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An updated version of this ZZT file manager. The interface is easier to use, but it continues to not explain links and categories and addresses and what all this means for launching your ZZT worlds through it.
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A very early release of the KevEdit ZZT editor. It can't do much of anything, but was released in its time to help contestants in the "Interactive Fantasies 24 Artistic Hours of ZZT" competition with its ability to easily use STK colors and place objects.
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The DOS version of KevEdit. Recently, KevEdit has become quite a program, especially with the latest version. It is easy to use, and it runs on most any operating system with ease. Though it is not updated too often, when it IS updated, it comes with many new features and many bug fixes.
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The Windows version of KevEdit. Recently, KevEdit has become quite a program, especially with the latest version. It is easy to use, and it runs on most any operating system with ease. Though it is not updated too often, when it IS updated, it comes with many new features and many bug fixes.
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I had trouble letting go of projects I liked but knew I would never finish. So I made a batch file that would help me kill those projects.
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This little utility allows you to set the health, keys, ammo etc. that the player starts the game with. This can be done with ZZTAE or KevEdit, but LZZUtil's Windows interface is quicker and more compact.
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MuzMak: A utility for stringing together #play commands
TikMak: A utility for animating text at the bottom of the screen in various ways
MouseMak: A demonstration of useful mouse control in ZZT
ProgMak: Intended to be a collection of (mostly graphical) ZZT coding tricks.
