Play Toonstruck on Windows 7

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Toonstruck is an old point-and-click adventure for the PC. The cartoonist, Mal Block, falls asleep one day over his work and apparently wakes up in his "toon world". In order to get this old, but still beautiful, game to work on Windows 7, you'll have to use a little trickery.

Old games are the best sometimes.
Old games are the best sometimes.

How to play Toonstruck on Windows 7

The detailed and lovingly designed point-and-click adventure Toonstruck is getting on in years, but the cartoon adventure still finds enthusiastic gamers today. Who still has Toonstruck in his game collection and has it under today Windows 7 wants to play again quickly runs into problems. Either the game does not start at all or essential components such as graphic or sound is missing. Playing like this is of course unthinkable. With a trick you can still use Toonstruck Windows 7 to play.

  1. To do this, you need the current version of the "DosBox" emulator. This program is specially designed to bring your PC back to the "Stone Age" and a 286 or 386 CPU with the corresponding old standards for Sound and emulate graphics.
  2. This way you can use the old DOSGames play on your modern PC today. "DosBox 0.74"can be downloaded free of charge from ComputerBase.
  3. You also need the open source front end to play Toonstruck "D-Fend Reloaded", which you can also download and use free of charge from SourceForge.
  4. In order to get Toonstruck running under Windows 7, you must first copy the two game CDs to your computer and move them into a shared folder. Then install the game from your hard disk, but skip all options regarding graphics and sound.
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  5. It is best to install the downloads for "DosBox" and "D-Fend Reloaded" in the same directory. After the installation, open "D-Fend Reloaded" and enter the directory path in which you installed "DosBox".
  6. Next you have to create your own profile for Toonstruck. To do this, first enter the profile name Toonstruck and then enter the directory paths for the Game.exe and Game.setup, which you can find after installing the game, in the Toonstruck directory Find.
  7. With "Cycles" and "Video Card "enter the following: Cycles = 20,000, Video Card = VGA, Render Method = ddraw and Scale = advinterp2x.
  8. Under "Configure the mounts" select the directory in which you installed the game files have, for example, "D: / Toonstruck / CD1", and activate "Enable input / output control" by checking the box set.
  9. Now you have to configure the sound for Toonstruck so that the game runs properly. Select the "Soundblaster" emulation (standard) here. Under "GUS" emulation, deactivate "Enable GUS" by unchecking the box. This is important for Toonstruck to run properly.
  10. Now just assign the game random access memory 32 MB is enough for this and activate "Enable XMS" and "Enable EMS".
  11. In the "Profile Editor" you now have to set the CPU core to "Dynamic", otherwise the game will jerk terribly. With that all profile settings for Toonstruck are done and you can finally start.
  12. You can now start Toonstruck via "Setup" in "D-Fend Reloaded". In the game, you can now, if desired, make further individual settings or you can jump straight into the cartoon adventure.

Have fun with Toonstruck under Windows 7!

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