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B.L.U.D.D - Blood Launcher Under DOS or DOSBox Public Beta v0.9 release - ISO link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/a515wdow68f66aa/bluddiso-v0.9-BETA.zip/file

Project I started years back that used to only work in DOSBox, kinda stopped working on it once we started getting GDX, nBlood, etc. Felt like playing actual DOS version since every port has its oddities compared to original... wanna get a DOS/98 PC soon so made sense to rework it to not use DOSBox specific commands.

It has Blood+Cryptic+Death Wish (with Speedy's soundtrack) all in main menu, a submenu to load custom mods/maps, a launcher settings menu to toggle BMOUSE/autoaim/etc, and if you're using DOSBox, server/client multiplayer menus, and a BLOOD.CFG with more modern WASD control scheme.

This download has 4 full versions of Blood to play with, because fuck "Atari." Included are versions 1.0, 1.11 with and without Plasma, and One Unit. It does not currently have a reinstall/replace option in menus but if you extract it into an empty directory and start the launcher, it'll ask which version you wanna restore.

If you extract it into a Steam/GOG install, you should be able to just start game normally - I didn't think to check audio settings in default dosboxBlood.conf versus the custom BLOOD.CFG, so you may need to flip the first IRQ from 5 to 7 or vice versa if sound doesn't work/game won't start.

I have tested it in DOSBox Staging and Windows 98 through VM/PCem, and everything in it rn seems to behave more or less as intended in both.

It's in an ISO for easy testing on my end; literally just copy all the crap into your Blood folder, and run BLUDD.BAT inside DOSBox. Includes DOSBox Staging for Windows users, you can run "dosbox.bat" to start it.

Only main thing left to actually code proper is support for launching multiplayer games of custom mods/WADs.