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Wanting BB PC Game
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:21 pm
by Thor Keister
HELP!! I'm looking for the original Blood Bowl PC game. Does anyone know where I can get one? From what I found out it was produced by Micro League (who was bought out by Ablesoft) but I can't find any places to buy a copy from. PLEASE HELP!!

Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:32 pm
by Ithilkir
Went to Underdogs
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 2:02 pm
by Thor Keister
I went to The Underdogs website. It was a 15MB zipped file I downloaded. I unzipped it but can't get it to install & run. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:12 pm
by browwnrob
hey man just go to
http://fumbbl.com/ and you will find a bloodbowl league where you can play online rather that against a dumb computer AI which is easy to beat!

Java & Win 95 don't play together
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:44 pm
by Thor Keister
I went to the site to get the JAVA game, but it won't run on 95. I'll get it on my home PC, but I want something I can run on my old laptop. This is why I'm looking for the regular PC game. Any help would be appreciated!

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:54 pm
by martynq
Where did you put it when you unzipped it? I found it had to be in a particular directory (C:\BBOWL, I think, but worth checking).
BTW, it's pretty rubbish, especially if you are used to the normal rules, IMO.
Martyn
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:50 pm
by Khaine
Go to underdog and read through the FAQ. In there you will find a link for Dosbox. Also you don't really have to run the install you just unzip and type bb and it should work. if it gives you a conventional memory message just use dosbox to run it. Works slick as snot for all of those old dos games and some of the earlier windows games that you just can't live without. I know I am still playing masters of magic on my xp box using doxbox. BTW The AI in blood bowl does suck

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Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:42 pm
by Goblingrin
I decided to download the game and dosbox myself (I have the game, but I haven't played it since my old computer gave up the ghost). Could someone please pm me and give me the idiot's guide to getting this to work? So far, I have had no luck.
Thanks, Goblingrin
PS Somewhere in the TBB files is a thread about someone who did an add-on to the game that made it a lot better (Skill rolls for SPP's, create new teams, other goodies). Unfortunately, the site disappeared a while ago. If anyone knows where it went, I'd like to get my hands on that too.
Re: Java & Win 95 don't play together
Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:29 am
by DoubleSkulls
Thor Keister wrote:I went to the site to get the JAVA game, but it won't run on 95.
are you sure?
I thought the Java runtime (from
http://java.sun.com) worked fine on '95 and if it does JBB should work too.
Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:17 pm
by Goblingrin
I will amend and enhance my last request. Could someone please pm me an idiot's guide to getting Dosbox and the Bloodbowl game to talk to each other?
I've tried using the Dosbox readme, but it does not help. I am definitely missing something.
Goblingrin
Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 1:25 am
by Khaine
Unzip Dosbox Install Double click on Dosbox.
Type
mount r c:\whateverdirectorybloodbowlisin
R:
bb

no real setup kinda plug and play which is why I like it

Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 2:03 am
by Goblingrin
Thanks. That's what I needed.
Goblingrin