Browse Genre - Utility

Demonstrates a ZZT title screen with 5 available keypress options.

MS-DOS Program to convert a GIF image into ANSI.

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.

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.

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.

MS-DOS program to convert images drawn with the program "The Draw" to ZZT boards. The Draw is also included with this zip file.

A convenient one-board summary of the Z2 cameo list, ready for insertion into any up-to-date ZZTer's toolkit list!

If you are new to ZZT, get this. If you don't have it, get it now. This is a very important set of toolkits which will certainly aid you if you want to create ZZT games.

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.

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)!

A collection of utilities by Darby Janssen. Includes color toolkits and a few game engines.

A great set of utilities by everyone's favourite hobo, Dexter! It has some fun stuff, including color toolkits, ASCII character boards, and the like. Though old, it is still worth checking out.