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Architecture: 68k
Dark Castle
Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software. It was designed and illustrated by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay.
Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles. The game is notable for its use of sampled sounds to great effect. A sequel titled Beyond Dark Castle was released in 1987. A second sequel, Return to Dark Castle, was announced in 2000, though it was not released until March 14, 2008.
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Your download link is broken.
Never mind, it also works under Basilisk.
This game looks very interesting but I am having trouble running in vMac
it and I get this:
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Sorry, Dark Castle cannot run because there is a problem
with the way memory is allocated. (38356 high bytes used)
this could be due to other software that is already installed
in memory (for example : Multifinder, Switcher, Tempo, Ram Disks Etc..)
The simplest way to avoid this type of problem is to turn off
the Macintosh and start up using the Darl Castle disk.
[Restart ] -------------------------- [ Finder ]
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and I don't have anything else installed except the System
which are the 38356 bytes already mentioned.
It's impossible to correctly uncompress this program either with the newest Windows version of Stuffit or with the Stuffit included in Mini vMac. There is no excuse for not giving the full, uncompressed version. I can't imagine why anyone would make a program unusable just to save a few kilobytes off of bandwidth...
How to play this game in Mac OS X, take a look at http://xserve3.21productions.com/~jlaporta/dcmanual.pdf
How do i play dark castle if i have Mac OS X????
Ok, cool, it's working now. Thank you gods of site management.
It's still doing it here. Clicking either of those thumbnails just gives a progress bar, but no picture, forever. Or, if you copy the target and try to directly go to the full-sized picture, the site will report file not found.
This has been fixed.
Odd, it looks like the 2nd and 3rd screenshots have disappeared. These links:
http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/screenshots/d...
http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/screenshots/d...
...produce an error page. I noticed this before and used that as a sort of excuse to replace a couple of pictures, but now the same has happened to the new images.
Runs perfect for me in Mini vMac (WinXP) with a special stripped-down System 6.0.8 startup disk image I created. Removed all but System, Finder, Clipboard, General, Scrapbook, Key Layout, Mouse, and Sound from System Folder. I open that disk image first to boot, then open the disk image with DC or BDC. Just fits on my netbook screen with magnify/full screen, although the stats at the bottom are cut off.
This game and its sequel, Beyond Dark Castle, have to be my favorite games from this era. I grew up with a Mac Plus (born in 1984) and I have fond memories of watching/making my father play and beat both games.
Gameplay, animation, and sounds are great. It has a cartoonishness (hovering after running off ledges, running into walls) that is fairly unique (the only other game that comes to mind is Earthworm Jim). Still challanging and fun 20+ years later, a gem and a classic.
P.S. Watch out for the gargoyle!