zork 3 ending

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I have either finished Zork 3, or died a horrible death. It's hard to
know which.

The trouble is, I was playing the game on a command-line console under
WinXP, so when the game terminated, the window closed itself, and that
was that. I had just opened the brass door, stepped inside, a flurry
of text happened, and then the window closed.

Can someone tell me (1) whether I won, and (2) what the text I missed
said.

Thanks.

 

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A cat leaping onto Robert Shimmin's computer produced this output:
> I have either finished Zork 3, or died a horrible death. It's hard to
> know which.
>
> The trouble is, I was playing the game on a command-line console under
> WinXP, so when the game terminated, the window closed itself, and that
> was that. I had just opened the brass door, stepped inside, a flurry
> of text happened, and then the window closed.
>
> Can someone tell me (1) whether I won, and (2) what the text I missed
> said.
>
Unless I've forgotten about a brass door (aside from the one in the set of
rooms selected with the dial), you won.

IIRC, after you go through the door, the old man reveals that he's the
dungeon master and some or all of the people you encountered during the
game, tells you the qualities you displayed by solving the point-scoring
puzzles, appoints you as the new dungeon master, and transforms you into a
duplicate of himself.

Ja, mata
--
Kevin Lighton lighton@bestweb.net or shinma_kl@operamail.com
"I thought he was too arrogant to have an escape pod!" Vyse, _Skies of
Arcadia_

 

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Robert Shimmin wrote in
news:620ebad1.0411091756.57772c82@posting.google.com:

> I have either finished Zork 3, or died a horrible death. It's
> hard to know which.
>
> The trouble is, I was playing the game on a command-line console
> under WinXP, so when the game terminated, the window closed
> itself, and that was that. I had just opened the brass door,
> stepped inside, a flurry of text happened, and then the window
> closed.
>
> Can someone tell me (1) whether I won, and (2) what the text I
> missed said.

To see it for yourself, either run the game from a windows terp such as
Windows Frotz, or run the command-line console from the command line so
that the window doesn't close when the program ends.

Rikard

 

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"Kevin Lighton" <lighton@monet.bestweb.net> wrote in message
news:10p33c5icukfee@corp.supernews.com...
> A cat leaping onto Robert Shimmin's computer produced this output:
> > I have either finished Zork 3, or died a horrible death. It's hard to
> > know which.
> >
> > The trouble is, I was playing the game on a command-line console under
> > WinXP, so when the game terminated, the window closed itself, and that
> > was that. I had just opened the brass door, stepped inside, a flurry
> > of text happened, and then the window closed.
> >
Right click on the short-cut to access its properties, and uncheck the box
labeled "close on exit."