Anyone tried Blood on DOSBox?

Elric · Post by **Elric** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 03:44 pm

The DOSBox website reports a "supported" status for Blood, but I haven't got the time to test it yet.

Post by **DustyStyx** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 04:10 pm

It's verry slow.

Slink · Post by **Slink** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 09:06 pm

Did you try it without sound? It should run a lot smoother. Same deal in XP command prompt...
-Slink

mouth · Post by **mouth** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:22 am

still too slow, it's better to use deathmask instructions.

Cruo · Post by **Cruo** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 09:13 am

Yeah, using vdmsound, cli2nop and nolfb works a lot better than dos box did.

Post by **DustyStyx** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 03:38 pm

Slink wrote:Did you try it without sound? It should run a lot smoother. Same deal in XP command prompt...
-Slink

What would the point be of doing that... unless your on linux. Blood already works just fine under XP if you turn off the sound.

Slink · Post by **Slink** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 05:11 am

That was my point, dude.

Sound off = runs smooth
Sound on = runs like s***.

heh, get it? Runs like s***? heheh runs...
-Slink

Number II · Post by **Number II** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:20 pm

Blood isn't Blood without the sound.

Post by **DustyStyx** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 03:44 pm

It is when the first time you played Blood you didn't have sound and you were STILL impressed.

Do you not remember the day when a sound card was a luxury? When you had to scrape by because you only had 12 megs of ram when Blood got upgraded to 1.10 and required 14megs... Oh, the agony of dialing down your screen rezolution to where you were playing Blood in the tiniest of tiny windows in the middle of your screen, just so you could fight through e1m6.

Daedalus · Post by **Daedalus** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:00 pm

Hahah... thanks for that, Cruaich. It's really easy to forget how priveleged we are these days!

Cruo · Post by **Cruo** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 03:53 am

I had a Pentium 200 with 64 megs of ram and a nice SoundBlaster ISA sound card in 1997, good old Gateway 2000 that cost 4000 bucks, imagine that. I'm sure the 19 inch monitor added to the price tag though. Good thing I was only 14 at the time and it was the folks who paid for it and not me.

Slink · Post by **Slink** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 04:18 am

Luckeee!

**Ever seen Napoleon Dynamite?**
-Slink

sirlemonhead · Post by **sirlemonhead** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:14 am

I played it first on a p75 mhz. Wasn't the smoothest..

Got my first soundcard back when I had the 386 though :p