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Architecture: 68k
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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| Author: | Douglas Adams |
| Publisher: | Infocom |
| Engine: | Z-machine |
Download HHGG.zip
(14.11 MB)
For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 9
For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 9
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction computer game based on the seminal comic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST and the IBM PC. It is Infocom's fourteenth game." --Wikipedia.org
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k
To play this game on Mac OS X, you don't need to configure a Mac emulator, because 'Zoom' does also the job for you.
For Zoom, please refer to its homepage at http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html
To get the games recognized by Zoom, please add the extension ".z5" (without quotes) to the Hitchhiker's application name.
Comments
Winterlast, where did you get those extra screenshots? Did they come from the original HHGG release? If you've got a bootable disk image of the earlier release I could add it to this archive; so far only a bootable disk for the Gold release has been available.
There is a Voyager Expanded Book of Douglas Adams' "Mostly Harmless" that I would really like to find and add to this archive, if anyone knows where to find it.
ADD: I've never seen it on eBay or any online store, though I haven't always checked religiously. Worldcat doesn't even show any copies available, either!
The manual files included in the big download file are now additionally added as PDF'ed Manual link.
Thank you! I've been looking forever for a way to generate MD5 checksums in Mac OS 9! Unlike someone in the comments, I completely appreciate you taking the time to share this link.
You can open it and run it.
Then there's simply no way to verify if a file was uploaded or downloaded properly.
That is way too complicated and I've never needed to do it before.
This software has md5 checksum capabilities and is available for OS 7-9:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html
H-O-W
You'd just generate a checksum and attach it to posts or embed it in the zip. Disk Copy images already have checksums, but toast and iso images don't.
If it requires a separate program, it's just not happening.
An MD5 checksum is used to verify that the file is correct. It's similar to a CRC checksum, but has a lower likelihood of collisions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum
What is an md5 checksum?
BTW I made this Toast file by the "Files and Folders" method; Toast doesn't only make images of actual CDs.
It wouldn't hurt if uploaders included md5 checksums of .toast files ...
Hi Attila,
if it is a .toast.zip or .cdr.zip or something created with Toast, then
all is OK!
Actually it's a Toast image and I use nothing but OS 9 myself. Toast is becoming my standard because we have several versions on the Mac Garden which can be used on real macs easily enough, and the images survive the Windows environment and can apparently be mounted in emulators. I'm trying to make you Windows lusers happy!
You made a zip file which doesn't work with Mac OS 9...
Please wrap the stuff into .img (with Disk Copy), then stuff it to .sit file.
This is now the ultimate Hitchhiker's archive. Everything is here, the original mac version, the later Solid Gold version, a Z-interpreter version, the unfinished sequel, Milliways, and scans of all packaging and paperwork in PDF format. Even some hints and cheats are included.
Merry Textmas!