How to play Jazz Jackrabbit on Windows 10

OpenJazz: high resolution Jazz Jackrabbit

Inspired heavily by classics like Zool and Sonic, Jazz Jackrabbit actually was an instant PC classic. Although you can play Jazz Jackrabbit perfectly fine with DOSBox, you can also download the Jazz Jackrabbit Collection (CD version and JJ Holiday Hare), which runs great on Windows. But it runs in the original resolution. However, there's also a source port available that allows you to play Jazz Jackrabbit in ultra high resolution on Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7 platforms: OpenJazz. It works with the following versions of Jazz Jackrabbit:

Jazz Jackrabbit

Jazz Jackrabbit Christmas Edition

Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare

Jazz Jackrabbit Shareware Edition

Basic needs

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So what do you need to play Jazz Jackrabbit on your Windows 10, 8 or Windows 7 computer?

One of the original Jazz Jackrabbit games installed

Don't have the game? Download the full version from GOG.com!

After that, get the OpenJazz game and library files

Install OpenJazz

We assume you have Jazz Jackrabbit installed or downloaded, in this example the game is in c:\games\jazz

Go to the download page of OpenJazz

Download the zip file with the OpenJazz executable For 32-bits Windows: OpenJazz-2019xxxx-win32.zip For 64-bits Windows: OpenJazz-2019xxxx-win64.zip

Open the zip file by double clicking it

Select all files in the zip file and copy them (right click, copy) into the Jazz Jackrabbit game folder (right click, paste), in this example c:\games\jazz

Start and configure OpenJazz