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EXCLUSIVE: Play Blood Demos Using DOSbox on All Windows OS
Comments | Share | Posted by Matt Stanyon | Friday 6th May 2011 @ 19:10 PM GMT

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Today, we have a surprise for you. We have compiled a collection of all of the available demos for the PC classic 'Blood'. Now that doesn't sound very exciting, but what if we were to tell you that you can now play all of these demos back on your Windows XP/Vista or even Windows 7 systems? Plus what if we said that these demos would now work on either the 32 (x86) or 64 (x64) bit versions of these Operating Systems? We can guarantee that you would be splitting at the seams and jumping for joy.

Well its all true, as you can now play all of these demos for 'Blood' on Windows XP/Vista/7 in 32 or 64 bit. We have made this possible using the amazing MS-DOS program called DOSBox, and some carefully executed coding from Hybrid Games to make these work on any current OS.

These demos start with the original Alpha Build of the game, which was compiled back in 1995 and eventually leaked online sometime later. We also have the only Beta version of the game, labelled at 0.91, this is the first build of the game to use the standard level layout we all know today, but in a much earlier stage of development. Then we move on the Shareware versions of the demos, which are labelled from 0.99 upto 1.11, and these show the later stages of the games' development, including the completely finished first episode, which was included in Shareware version 1.11.

At present DOSBox is sitting at version 0.74, but we have decided to use version 0.73. We know what you're thinking! Why use 0.73 instead of 0.74? version 0.74 is more stable than 0.73 right? Well your right, it is more stable, but in regards to 'Blood', 0.74 has an annoying bug in it that isn't present in 0.73. This happens when you try to play 'Blood' in fullscreen mode and it causes the display for the game to not appear, but you can hear the sound. This annoying little bug doesn't occur in 0.73.

So in regards to these demos, and in the words of Caleb himself... "I live again." Check out what we have to offer below :

Name	Release Date	File Size	Click to Download
Alpha Demo Build	1994-1995	18.8mb	Download
Beta 0.91	11th January 1997	15.9mb	Download
Shareware 0.99	3rd March 1997	15.8mb	Download
Shareware 0.99a	3rd March 1997	15.8mb	Download
Shareware 0.99b	7th March 1997	28.6mb	Download
Shareware 0.99c	24th March 1997	28.7mb	Download
Shareware 1.00	22nd April 1997	29.1mb	Download
Shareware 1.00	24th April 1997	16.0mb	Download
Shareware 1.01	10th June 1997	16.1mb	Download
Shareware 1.02	17th June 1997	16.1mb	Download
Shareware 1.10	5th August 1997	16.1mb	Download
Shareware 1.11	10th September 1997	16.1mb	Download

Also check out the README file below to understand how to install each of these files. There are individual README files included with each demo as well.

BLOOD(TM) Demos (Using DOSBox 0.73) README.TXT
May 5th, 2011
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Installed, Booted & Tested by Matt Stanyon
Compatible : Windows 7, Vista, XP (All on 32 & 64 bit)
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AUTO INSTALLING BLOOD ALPHA/BETA/SHAREWARE (0.91/0.99/1.00/1.01/1.02/1.11)

Unzip Blood(Version).zip to C: drive.
Enter folder C:\Monolith\Demos\Blood(Version)\DOSBox\dosbox.exe
or C:\Monolith\Demos\Blood(Version)\Shortcuts\Play Blood Shareware (Version). Clicking on either of these will immediately boot Blood Shareware (Version) to fullscreen using DOSBox 0.73.
When finished playing, Exit Blood Shareware (Version) and DOSBox 0.73 will automatically close due to the setup provided by Hybrid Games.

You can copy the link provided in the Shortcuts folder to anywhere on your PC and Blood Shareware (Version) will still boot up as normal.
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INSTALLING BLOOD ALPHA/BETA/SHAREWARE (0.91/0.99/1.00/1.01/1.02/1.11) TO ALTERNATE LOCATIONS

Unzip Blood(Version).zip to your desired location.
Open up DOSBox folder inside Blood(Version) and open up dosbox.conf in your favourite text editor (Notepad is easiest).
Scroll to the bottom of dosbox.conf file, find the line [autoexec] and edit the following file "mount c c:\Monolith\Demos\Blood(Version)" to where you have installed Blood Shareware (Version)
4. Open up Shortcuts folder inside Blood(Version) and right click on
"Play Blood Shareware (Version)", go to properties.
Edit the following lines to where you have installed Blood Shareware (Version):
Target: C:\Monolith\Demos\Blood(Version)\DosBox\DOSBox.exe
Start In: C:\Monolith\Demos\Blood(Version)\DosBox
Change Icon: C:\Monolith\Demos\Blood(Version)\gfw_high.ico

Now you can boot up Blood (Version) using using either : -
- DOSBox\dosbox.exe
- Shortcuts\Play Blood Shareware (Version)

These demos of 'Blood' are provided free of charge, with no copyright infringment intended, and are exclusive to Hybrid Games. They may not be shared without our express permission, and please do not link directly to the downloads.

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