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Blood Bowl with Dosbox

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First post, by Deathskull

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Can anyone help me with getting blood bowl to work with dosbox? whenever i run the bloodbowl, i get this message

Can't load C:\BLOOD\ART\ART.WAD

Real highwater = 33D4:4E10 (232272 bytes)
XMS highwater = 0
C:\>

Reply 1 of 4, by wd

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Is that directory tree accessible? Is the file present and writable?
Did you try loadfix?

Reply 2 of 4, by Gadler

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Mount the BLOOD-Directory as C:
This should work!

Reply 3 of 4, by Deathskull

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wow, it works! ive been trying to get it working for 2 years now

Reply 4 of 4, by silverkell

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Having the same problem as above poster now and it is mounted to Blood

Real Highwater = 33D4 : 4E10 (232272 bytes)
XMS highwater = 0
c:\>

I'm not ever to savvy on this sort of stuff but am trying. Anyways i have the file in my C dir. I mount it succefuly to c

z:\>mount c c:\blood

then i go to c prompt

c:\>

I try to run the install program for this game but it just locks up. So i just run the bb.exe and it gives me the above error.

From the c: dir/w brings up
[.]
ALLSTAR.FRP
BBOWL.PDF
DARKSIDE.ANP
DWARF.ROP
GOUGED.FIP
HOTUNO~1.TXT
MUSIC.WAD
SFX.WAD
UNDRWRLD.FIP
ALLSTAR.LGE
CHAMPS.ANP
DARKSIDE.ANP
ELFHEIM.ANP
GOUGED.ROP
INSTALL.EXE
PLAYS.WAD
SOUNDRV.COM
UUNRWRLD.ROP
ALLSTAR.SCH
CHAMPS.FIP
DARKSIDE.ROP
ELFHEIM.FIP
GREENFLD.ANP
MIDPAK.AD
REIKLAND.ANP
TEST.SFX
BB.EXE
CHAMPS.ROP
DWARF.ANP
ELFHEIM.ROP
GREENFLD.FIP
MIDPAK.ADV
REIKLAND.FIP
TEST.XMI
[..]
[ART]
[VOICE]
AGENTS.FRP
BB.INF
COMMENTS.TOK
DWARF.FIP
GOUGED.ANP
GREENFLD.ROP
MIDPAK.COM
REIKLAND.ROP
UNDRWRLD.ANP

Whew... SO! Any help getting my head out of my bum and getting this working would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.