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[The Soul Man]

This is a tutorial to how to get the old BB games to work on new computers.
The BB Games was originally designed to work on MS-Dos, but in the newer versions of Windows the Dos support has been reduced and removed. If any of you try it on XP you wont be able to run it properly, because of the reduced support.

The Blues Brothers (1991) Download:
See attachment 1.


Blues Brothers 2 (1993) - The Jukebox Adventure
See attachment 2.

Now I extract the .zip files and place the games in c:\OldGames\
PS: Remember to NOT put spaces between the words in "OldGames"

So what you will need is a DOS emulator.
DosBox is a good emulator, which I will use in my tutorial.
It can be downloaded from here:

DosBox.com

Direct link for Windows users:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox0.74-win32-installer.exe/download

Install it and open it.

It will look like this:




Open Dosbox

If you want to play The Blues Brothers (1991), type:

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mount c: c:\OldGames\bb_pc

If you want to play Blues Brothers 2 (1993) - The Jukebox Adventure, type:

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mount c: c:\OldGames\bb2

Type (for both games from now on):

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c:

Then:

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blues

There you go!



Note that these games are old with poor graphic and sound.


Have fun !

Attached Files

•  bb_pc.zip   423.33K   19 downloads
•  bb2.zip   499.94K   14 downloads

Edited by The Soul Man, 28 September 2011 - 10:59 PM.

[vicious]

can you play it on windows 7?

[TakkunEG]

vicious said:

can you play it on windows 7?

That's what the emulators he's talking about are for.

[The Soul Man]

vicious said:

can you play it on windows 7?

Yes it does.
It also supports Linux. :razz:

[vicious]

oooooh yeah, now i see, thanks

[Dean Heuke]

here it worked with a little help from The Soul Man

[mrentertainment]

Wish they would get it running for Mac.

[The Soul Man]

Here's the direct download link for Dosbox for Mac.
Download DOSBox DOS Emulator from SourceForge.net

This should work the same way as for Windows. If you encounter any problems, please tell me.

[vicious]

is still don't get it running

[The Soul Man]

why?

[vicious]

The Soul Man said:

why?

i have no idea what i do wrong

[The Soul Man]

Updated 17-5-2010
Added alternate way.

[vicious]

i getted the first way to start... my brother is no pc geek, but he helped me out