Dark Castle

staplung 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You can also play it in the browser in Infinite Mac: https://infinitemac.org/1991/System%207.0

(Worked somewhat better for me than the classicreload version)

gausswho 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Note that Dark Castle was programmed by Jonathan Gay, who would eventually go on to make FutureSplash. You might know it better from what it was renamed to: Flash (of Macromedia/Adobe).

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DonHopkins 2 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The first time Marc Canter (who founded Macromedia) introduced me to Jonathan Gay at CGDC as the creator of Dark Castle, I shouted at him: "Nya nya nya! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" (The sound of the creepy monsters holding their hands above their heads, and picking up rocks.)

For years after playing that game, I would always say "Yeah!" whenever I picked up a rock, and I'd always look for bats every time I entered a room.

After my friend and I (whose Mac we both played Dark Castle on) went to pick up a big chunk of hash from his pot dealer, we both looked at each other and said "Yeah!"

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xnx 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also playable in browser at https://classicreload.com/play/mac-dark-castle.html

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st3fan an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Such a classic. Played these for many hours as a kid.

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kelsolaar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The download links are all dead.

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card_zero 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But archived!

https://web.archive.org/web/20250901121225/https://darkcastl...

	▲	chongli 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Might as well link directly to the game: https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2

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mjmsmith an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Z Sculpt sells an updated version of Return to Dark Castle:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/Return_to_Dark_Ca...

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chrisallick 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

instill have the floppies :)

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einpoklum an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

So, I was disappointed to find dead links to a Windows-based emulator :-(

Does anyone know...

* What happened to the creators?

* Who owns the copyrights, if at all?

* Has anyone been approached to release the source code and games resources?

Also, if anyone has an appropriate Linux emulator, which supports these games, please share a link and perhaps instructions.

	▲	card_zero 41 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Mini vMac (bundled in the zip) has Linux versions too. https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ Dark Castle was by Jonathan Gay, who also did Shockwave Flash, a somewhat more popular project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay
	▲	fzzzy 40 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Mini vMac. You’ll need a mac plus ROM file and a copy of the software disk images. Or, return to dark Castle is now available on steam as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It contains all the dark castle and beyond dark castle levels plus many more new levels and works on modern computers.