Zak-256

[Giocherellone]

Hi friends!

Surely by now you know me, and you know that I am a fan of the fangames about the games by LucasArts.

What you don't know, is that lately came to my mind to "recover" some old amateur creations, which no one knows or remembers, to translate them into Italian language and make it accessible to the fans of my Country.

I was very lucky, in fact I was greeted in the Italian Forum "Arena80", where were put at my disposal areas and skills in AGS, in order to succeed in these my projects.

I must therefore thank all the "Arena80" Forum, and especially AprilSkies, which is really GREAT with AGS!

Two of the three games that we currently have "recovered" are of German origins.

So I thought of making available to you, too, friends of Germany, these "recovered" almost unknown fangames!

I hope you will please!

The first of these two games is this "Zak-256." What's this?



Unfortunately there is almost nothing left of the history of this project. All that remains is here:

http://web.archive.org/web/200206080032 ... k2_fan.htm

The author is called Yot (Felix Jakschitsch), and unfortunately is no longer with us.

http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2003-03-00153-EN.html

I hope that this job is at least a tribute and a "thank you" to him.

He had in mind to remake the game "Zak McKraken", which at the time (2000-2001) was still only in EGA 16 colors version.



The idea was to use the graphical version of the Japanese FM-TOWNS, and since the first results were spectacular, has seen fit to make this unusual "Zak-2": a small demonstration of the potential of his project.



After that he joined the team of SCUMMVM together to finish the remake of Zak, and so this kind of "Zak-2" has been abandoned as well.



Of course, some screens have been translated into Italian, but I also left the original versions in German and in English (but they work only using a DOS emulator).



(the original German screen)

You can select the German language, setting AGS as "language default" from winsetup.exe.

Have fun with this Zak-256 project!

http://oldgames.arena80.it/arenauta13/Z ... ak-256.zip

;D

[S-Made]

Wow, that was unexpected!

I remember that I created the webpage for this project about 12 years ago.
I recognized the logo which I threw together in about 5 minutes.
Unfortunately the page disappeared shortly after this and I never heard about it again.
Most of the page is gone, I only found the front page with the logo:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020402171 ... zak256.de/

So you got me curious and I searched the web and found a link which brings up old memories:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020408124 ... nboard.cgi

That was the message board for (beside others - Madgamepage anyone?) zak256.de
and also for my old (and now abandoned) personal homepage krasstatur.de...
Unfortunately only the front page exists, so you can't read the old threads.

Also, there is a really old thread here about zak256 from 2002:
http://www.adventure-treff.de/forum/vie ... ?f=1&t=248

Oh boy, I am old, thanks for reminding me!

[Giocherellone]

WOW! Hi, S-Made!

I'm happy to meet you!

Come on, give us some news about this project!

Since we are unable to know anything through the web, there is no certain news!

Someone also told me that MAYBE this demo was one of the first ideas for "The New Adventures of Zak McKraken." Is it possible?

Tell us everything you know, please!

Ciao ciao from Italy!

[S-Made]

Hi Giocherellone,

sorry to disappoint you, but I was not involved in the development of the project.
I only "designed" the webpage and put some screenshots and a few descriptions on the website, that's it.
I guess I got them via Mail from yot, but I can't remember anything else.

Well, and "The New Adventures of Zak McKracken" was developed by LucasFan,
who also was part of the community I mentioned above (Abandonware Board).
So I guess in some way the Zak256 Project was an inspiration for him.

[Giocherellone]

Hi S-Made"!

You have no reason to be sorry, the information you gave me are priceless!

Thank you for everything!

Ciaooooooooooo...