Now you've done it... piqued my curiosity, as the reason I purchased the Xplosiv version was that I was led to believe that Nemesis was a Dos game.

So I did a little test with my Xplosiv Nemesis on XP but first this is an excerpt from the Xplosiv ReadMe file on disk one...

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VII. MICROSOFT WINDOWS® 2000 AND XP USERS

In order for you to launch Zork Nemesis correctly, you will need to launch the program from your installation directory via Windows® Explorer

EXAMPLE:

C:\Program Files\Xplosiv\Zork Nemesis\Runnem.exe

Alternatively, you can..

1. Click-on the Windows START button in the lower Left-Hand corner
2. Choose the RUN option shown, and the BROWSE for the RUNNEM.EXE file.
3. Once you’ve located the RUNNEM.EXE file, you can then click-on the OK button to launch Zork Nemesis

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For the fun of it I loaded my Xplosiv Nemesis on XP straight up without the aid of Compatibility Mode, Installed the game. Found the file RUNNEM.EXE in the Xplosiv Program File (as stated above), which by the way is a Activision installer file, you do not use the ZNEMESIS.EXE (also Activision) file which is the regular executable file that you would normally double click to start the game and the Zork icon. Started the game, watched the opening cinematics and played a few minutes.

Maybe this is why some had trouble with the Xplosiv version as they didn't look far enough in the read me file to see this last paragraph. There will be no start up icon in the start menu, in fact it will say that the Zork Nemesis file is empty, but I believe you can create a shortcut on your Desktop of the RUNNEM.EXE file to make it easier to start.

BTW...ZORK Nemesis, to me, is one of those games that doesn't look as good on a LCD Monitor as it does on a CRT Monitor. Thanks to Jenny100 for enlightening me to that.

Maybe he's talking about Robert Gault's full install ***here***.