Remember this retro game?

When I was a child, I used to play this with my friends in split screen, which is fun 😀

I just found the old CD and wanted to get it running. This is the way that worked out:

1. Download and install DOSbox
2. Create an directory somewhere, e.g. “C:\Users\foo\dosbox”
3. Start DOSbox
4. Insert the Bleifuss Fun / Ignition CD into your CD drive (say it has drive D:)
5. Mount the CD in DOSBox:

   mount d d:\ -t cdrom

6. Mount the directory you created in step 2 as c:

   mount c c:\Users\foo\dosbox

7. Switch to the CD-Rom by typing:
   d:
8. Start the installation by typing:

   DOS_INST.EXE

   

9. Go through the installation by pressing Enter, leaving the default location (C:\BLEIFUSS.FUN\ will end up in C:\Users\foo\dosbox\BLEIFUSS.FUN on your drive)
   
10. Go into the installation directory

    c:
    cd BLEIFUSS.FUN

11. Switch into Fullcreen: ALT + Enter
12. Start the game by typing

    BLEI_DOS.BAT

You can switch back from fullscreen with Alt + Enter and kill dosbox with CTRL + F9

You can increase the screen resolution under options to 800 x 600 to get the graphics a little better.

Next time you run the game, start Dosbox, insert the CD, mount it, mount c, go into the installation directory and start the game:

If you don’t want to insert the CD every time or don’t have a CD drive anymore, you can create an image of the CD using Daemon Tools and mount this into a virtual CD drive and mount this in DOSBox.

Of course this should work on any OS where DOSBox is running.

Have fun!