Dark Castle(darkcastle.co.uk)
148 pointsby evo_98 hours ago14 comments
  • gausswho5 hours ago
    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).
    • DonHopkins4 hours ago
      The first time Marc Canter (who founded Macromedia) introduced me to Jonathan Gay at CGDC as the creator of Dark Castle, I excitedly and respectfully held and flapped my hands above my head and shouted at him: "Nya nya nya nya nya! Yow! Uuuurh! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" (The sound of the nasty monsters, and picking up rocks.)

      https://youtu.be/6U6v3XyrPLc?t=43

      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 relentlessly 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!" Fortunately we refrained from throwing it at a bat.

      • z0r4 hours ago
        Someone claiming to be the creator of Dark Castle says they are working on a 40th anniversary edition in the comments of that video.
  • astennumero32 minutes ago
    Would it be possible to play this in those retro platform emulation handhelds? Was able to find ports for DOS, Mac, Genesis, C64, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIgs, CD-i. Is this a viable portmaster suggestion?
  • xnx8 hours ago
    Also playable in browser at https://classicreload.com/play/mac-dark-castle.html
  • bombcar3 hours ago
    I'd love to see a Fabien-style Game Engine Black Book for some of these older Macintosh games.
  • CMay3 hours ago
    This game came out the same year the original Castlevania did. They're different enough games, but there are a few similarities that do make you wonder if they had any particular shared influences.
  • mjmsmith5 hours ago
    Z Sculpt sells an updated version of Return to Dark Castle:

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

  • kelsolaar8 hours ago
    The download links are all dead.
  • st3fan5 hours ago
    Such a classic. Played these for many hours as a kid.
  • staplung4 hours ago
    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)

  • m4632 hours ago
    The other thing I remember of that era was the (unrelated) Talking Moose
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  • chrisallick5 hours ago
    instill have the floppies :)
  • einpoklum6 hours ago
    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_zero5 hours ago
      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

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    • fzzzy5 hours ago
      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.

  • gaythread7 hours ago
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