Return to Zork / The Zork Anthology (1997) - title versions
Release and serial numbers read from the z-code headers of the story files this disc carries. Return to Zork itself is not a Z-machine game (it runs on Activision’s MADE engine) and has no entry here.
The advertised anthology games
“Built-in hints” marks builds whose z-code contains the in-game hint system, determined from the decoded game text; only Zork Zero’s r393 carries one.
| Title | Z-machine | Release | Where on disc | Built-in hints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zork I | v3 | r88.840726 | DATA/ZORK1/, and again inside DATA.Z |
- |
| Zork II | v3 | r48.840904 | DATA/ZORK2/, and again inside DATA.Z |
- |
| Zork III | v3 | r17.840727 | DATA/ZORK3/, and again inside DATA.Z |
- |
| Zork Zero | v6 | r393.890714 | DATA/ZORKZERO/, and again inside DATA.Z |
yes |
| Beyond Zork | v5 | r57.871221 | inside DATA.Z only |
- |
The unadvertised story files inside DATA.Z
The Windows installer archive DATA.Z also carries a DATA\ directory that is Masterpieces’ shared PC/DATA/ byte for byte - story files for fourteen games the product never mentions, with no interpreters or documentation (see notes.md).
None of the fourteen has built-in hints; they are all plain PC builds from 1992:
| Title | Z-machine | Release |
|---|---|---|
| Ballyhoo | v3 | r97.851218 |
| Deadline | v3 | r27.831005 |
| Enchanter | v3 | r29.860820 |
| Infidel | v3 | r22.830916 |
| The Lurking Horror | v3 | r203.870506 |
| Moonmist | v3 | r9.861022 |
| Planetfall | v3 | r37.851003 |
| Sorcerer | v3 | r15.851108 |
| Spellbreaker | v3 | r87.860904 |
| Starcross | v3 | r17.821021 |
| Stationfall | v3 | r107.870430 |
| Suspect | v3 | r14.841005 |
| Suspended | v3 | r8.840521 |
| The Witness | v3 | r22.840924 |
Every build on this disc is the PC build from the 1992 LTOI CD and Masterpieces, byte-identical padding and all; nothing was remastered for this pressing.