Zig Zag Ancient Greeks

Overview
Zig Zag Ancient Greeks was an educational game originally published by Longman Logotron and BBC Worldwide in 1996 for RISC OS systems. The object of the game was to complete a number of tasks related to life in an Ancient Greek town. The player's character wanders around an open area, entering locations where the tasks are situated.

Since there were many tasks to perform, the game provided an option to save progress to a file and load it again later. This page describes the format, based on the original notes for it.

Requirements
The files saved by the Greeks will have to	contain information about the general setup of	the program, the player, the environment,	progress made, and the status of each location. An identifier, to specifically link the file to	this program is also required.

Solution
The format is laid down as follows:

Comments
It seems like the original software can still be purchased from CJE Micro's. The rights to the range of software from Logotron Ltd. were acquired in 2011 by Rickett Educational Media.