For the record, I am not going to try to convert you to anything. you made it clear, and I understand. Hells bells, I still enjoy running older software for the Apple II, C64, Atari XE, Atari ST, Mac 68K, Amiga, Spectrum, and Apple Lisa (how obscure is that?? I actually have custom Lisa software, burred somewhere that I made in LisaPascal).
I get the feeling that you are more interested in the classic vibe, and feel a nice warmth doing it the old way, and I understand that.
You say that you have been working on a quest for a decade, so I expect you have an amazing quality of extensive patience, and thus if you can wait during my long stretches of going insanse by being overburdened, I am willing to try to assist you: I will see what happens running 1.90 on an emulator
first and if it causes problems. For all I know I can run it with WINE, but I have run Linux OSes in PC emulators, so running a DOS environment shouldn't be impossible.
I have DOS systems, but they are not in my immediate ability to retrieve (in storage); even if I used one, i would need to network it somehow, and that is a huge headache. (I don;t even have a running system with a
floppy drive at present to do a sneakernet connection), and I doubt there are any
ISA cards for USB out there, although I could probably
make one. That would be silly, but might be neat, although I'd probably need to use <64MB SD/CF cards.)
All of this depends on your timeline, but as I said, i am willing to help when I can. I am absurdly busy now working on actual work, plus my books, editing, and working on two quests of my own and assisting others with theirs.
I suppose my idea for having an 'Older ZC' board depends on your point of view. having one would make it easier to have conversations with people not using 2.5, as the boards would not be cluttered with 2.5 related topics. I'm big on categorisation, which shows in the forums that I admin, as I have sub-boards for many things that others might not.
if I saw a post in a board for older ZC versions asking for help with 1.90, first, i wouldn't wonder what it meant, and second, I'd not be as aggressive in trying to convince anyone to change versions, as by posting there, you're already making the statement 'This is what I want!'.
I will try to find 1.90-related docs for you; archive.org is your friend there.
I presune you have read
everything by Alphadawg? Did the Misc types info that I gave you work?
By the time I got into ZC, 1.92 was out, and I only had Mac systems on hand, so I never bothered much with 1.90 simply because it ran only on DOS.. I tried to run it on VPC (PowerPC OS 10.2 or 10.3), and I recall that it did run, but beyond that, i don;t really recall the interface differences between that and 1.92.
Here is a question for the DEVS: How much original documentation and material do you have from Phantom Menace, Dark Nation (sorely missed) and Alphadawg?
(Someone please poke at Gleeock and Saffith on this one.)
Given enough documentation, I could write
User Manuals for each version of ZC. That is one of my primary occupations...
Edited by ZoriaRPG, 12 September 2013 - 12:24 AM.