**** ZTR compressed .WAD format **** By Greg Engle **** Copyright 1996-1997 **** FREEWARE/PUBLIC DOMAIN [1] This is the ONLY version of ZTR that is coming out unless I mess around with QUAKE alittle. I didn't even mean for this to come out. I was just sitting their at my computer, messing around with the IDBSP node builder and WOW!! I noticed an AWESOME IDEA... So I built this program that is a shell to do what I want. [2] Okay make sure all the zips are unzipped including IDBSP11B.ZIP. then what I would do is upzip all this stuff in your PKZIP directory because one you need PKZIP & PKUNZIP in your path. NOTICE this will not work if you don't have PKZIP & PKUNZIP in your path statement if you do not now how to do this, go buy a machintosh because I'm not wasteing my time on this anymore . Just unzip it to your zip directory. [3] Well I think this program is really sweet... ALOT better compression in WADS so I hope you like it... [4] The release date for ZTR is 06-19-97. Now for anybody that has any brains is asking why was is made in 96 and release in 97 almost a year later. Basically for one reason, I got quake and thought everybody would like quake better. Furthermore, I went to my friends house and was watching him using WADED. Then he convinced me to release this program. But in the meantime I deleted the Source code, the only thing residing on my small 1.2g hard drive was the executable. So here it is. If you like it I'm glad you do but if you hate it I'm glad you hate it. Basically this was NEVER supposed to be released but it is, so be happy. Oh there are ERRORS I KNOW! If you can make a WAD file then you can easily figure out how to use this program. If WAD Authors want me to make an updated DOS version AND/OR a Win95/Win16 version I will Consider it only if I get support via email. So make sure you email me. Thanks. Remember this is *FREEWARE* [5] I have included a ZTR file with this program. ABC187.ZTR is a compressed WAD file. To convert ABC187.ZTR to ABC187.WAD type: ZTR -E ABC187.ZTR and press enter I hope you like this program. [6] Sometimes when you compress a WAD file it makes the file OUTPUT.ZTR instead of the the filename you told it to. Just rename OUTPUT.ZTR to the filename you want and that will work fine. email: bobo@qconline.com you can get this version and if I publish any others at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/doom2/utils