Monolith's Blood - The Temple (1280x1024) [HD]

Play-through of a level of Blood on Normal difficulty. I mainly chose this level for its atmospheric thunder and lightning that perpetually surrounds the temple. Go HD and then full-screen: the video will properly fill a 1.333333~ monitor ratio.

This was run in Dosbox 0.73 (on Win 7 RC 64-bit) at 1280 x 1024 resolution. It would normally not be possible for me to run nor [simultaneously] record the game at such a high resolution decently. This level was recorded as a demo macro at a lower resolution, then played back with DosBox's CPU cycles manually set at 800,000 instructions per millisecond.

Blood is owned by Monolith Studios Ltd. (1997)

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• Blood
• DOS
• FPS
• Old
• Classic
• shooter
• game
• Monolith
• [HD]
• hi-res
• gothic

[Ceekur]

YouTube updating their video player has caused the video to be out of sync on 360p mode. Unfortunately you have to watch in either 720p or 240p for the video to play the way it was uploaded.

[eVoluci0n]

I know you said you recorded this at a lower resolution, then played it back with DosBox's CPU cycles manually set at 800,000 instructions per millisecond, but exactly how did you do that? I'm trying to do the same and can't figure it out.

[Ceekur]

@eVoluci0n: At the command-line before entering Blood, type without quotes 'cycles=10000' or a similar number, which will turn the cycles on manual, regardless of DosBox's configuration settings. Start up Blood, then press Ctrl + F12 to increment the cycles counter by a set amount (you can change this in configuration).

Note that once you hit the physical limit of one of your real CPU's cores, it will start running in slow motion (which is fine if you're using the recorder to make a video).

[sammo5000]

how do you get high quality sound on this?when I play it sounds like shit

[Ceekur]

@sammo5000 You need to make sure your audio sample rate is high enough. In the setup.exe for Blood, after accepting the sound settings, make sure it's set to use 16 Bit mixing, stereo sound, and a Mixing Rate of 44 Khz. The music should also be set to General MIDI with a MIDI Port of 0x330. Unless you have the current DosBOX Version 0.74 (where this is default), you need to also manually set the sample rate for SoundBlaster to 44100 in its configuration file.

[sammo5000]

@Ceekur Did all that.Still sounds bad.any specific card needed?

[Ceekur]

I have it set on "Sound Blaster 16 or AWE32", Address 0x220, Interrupt 7, 8-bit DMA: 1, 16-bit DMA: 5.

If you mean actual hardware, not really. Integrated sound card should be fine, esp in today's era. I'm assuming you're using a relatively recent computer and running DosBOX for this and not running an older system using true DOS, right?

Does my audio in the video sound *significantly* better than your audio? If so, what does yours "sound like", that being the best way I can ask that.

[juicemark]

best game ever!!!!

[ilikemyhandsbloody]

Yes, only more depth.

[Bruce777999]

The Temple rocked - love the monk chant in the background!

[AlexeiVoronin]

One of my favorite levels in the entire game.

It's a shame Monolith abandoned this awesome game. Damn shame.

[hondragrid]

Ugh, after watching this it always remindes me of how great/fun this game is. I need to play it again and maybe do some searching for user created levels and episodes.

[peteyguitarguy]

I got this from a site called GOG.com and it runs flawlessly on win 7 64 bit...never thought I'd get to play this great game again

[ptaah7]

Yalnız zamanlarımı cennete çeviren karanlık mistik gotik oyun.

A dark mystic gothic game that turn into my alone days in to heaven.

[wohanable]

I bought this some time ago on gog, and for whatever reason it runs in a choppy manner. I don't know dosbox whatsoever, so if anyone can think of a solution to get it running like in this video please tell me

[BlackShaheen1982]

This brings up so many great memories.......thx Ceekur

[Gunner193]

@TheZ714

AFAIK, only on DOSBox.

[Gunner193]

The name of this is "Hallowed Grounds", not "Temple".