C64 and Zork II - Internal error #3608

[Catsmasher]

I recently acquired a Commodore 64 in working condition. We were able to run the computer, do some simple programming, and save and retrieve files from the floppy drive.

So far, so food

So the next step is to play an old game, right!?!?

I got a new in box copy of ZorkII off of ebay. Unwrapped the game, slid in the floppy, loaded the game, ran the game, got the opening test paragraph and the command prompt ">". Then, no matter what we type in the only reply is:

 

INTERNAL ERROR #3608

-- END OF SESSION --

 

Then the thing freezes up.

 

 

Anyone seen this before?

 

Cat

[Tempest]

Something is corrupt on the disk.

[Catsmasher]

The warranty card in the game says that if you send a bad disk back to the company - they will replace it. Do you think it will still work?

[SoulBlazer]

That sucks that a brand new copy of the game is bad, but after all these years, I guess it happens. I recall BITD having a number of game disks go bad on my C64....we always made copies and played the copies, but even the originals could go bad.

 

But hey, if you have the game on disk, go ahead and download a copy.

[jhd]

Check out The Interactive Fiction Archive

http://www.ifarchive.org/

 

Certainly the demo version of Zork I for the C64 is there: http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXdemos.html

 

 

The DOS version of the whole trilogy was formally made available for free some years ago.