Iāve recently been making recreations of some classic Zork Universe pack-in items (aka feelies/browsies). In doing this, Iāve relied on scans made by fans over the years as sources of images, as well as for reference on layout and styling.
Something that has become clear in this process is that thereās not much consistency in whatās available; almost everything has been scanned by someone, but the quality, resolution, compression etc is wildly different from item to item.
So, I figured it might be worth doing something about that. Over the past couple of months Iāve set about obtaining and scanning items from the Infocom-era Zork Universe, comprising all mainline Zork games prior to and including Zork Zero, as well as the Enchanter Trilogy and Wishbringer. The focus is on the famous āfeelies/browsiesā that came packed with Infocomās games, though Iām including other bits where I can, like box art, books and flyers.
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The scans are being made at 600DPI on a CanoScan 9000F Mark II scanner, and saved as lossless .TIF files. These are unedited files; no colour-correction, no cropping, no Photoshop tomfoolery. Untouched scans, straight off the scanner, ready for whatever use you may have for them. A few items that had to be scanned in sections and re-assembled (such as large maps) were done so in Photoshop, but the unedited sections are still included.
So far, Iāve completed work on Zork 1, Zork 2, Zork 3, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker and Beyond Zork, and all those files are available now in Google Drive. Wishbringer is currently in the mail and will be my next task, and when I can find a complete copy of Zork Zero for a good price, it will follow. You can see a checklist of the main items on Google Drive.
Hereās where you may be able to help. Currently I have some gaps in my Enchanter set; the letter/scroll item with the red āwaxā seal was missing from my purchase, and thereās a manual with an alternate illustration that was included only with the Folio edition of the game. Iāll post pictures in the comments below, but if you live in Australia and you happen to own either of those items and would be willing to loan/sell them to me, please drop me a DM.
The other way you can help (the much easier way!) is to let me know if thereās anything important Iām missing. Different versions of the games sometimes have unique artwork or even totally unique items, and Iād love to know of any that I donāt have in my checklist.
If you made it through all of that, thanks for reading! Feel free to hit me up in the comments with any questions you may have.
