gausswho20 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).
DonHopkins19 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.
lolive13 hours ago
Was the dual “euh weuuu heu heuuu” when you were drunk or when you fell from a a bit too high?
jjuran13 hours ago
The latter. There's only one heavy drinker in Dark Castle, and it's not the hero. ;-)
z0r19 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.
DonHopkins19 hours ago
Another commenter figured out how to spell "Woah! Wueeeueehh, wueeeueehh, wueeeueehh! Mmmbrbrbrbr!"
ryanisnan14 hours ago
Wow, thanks for that lesson! I owe that guy my career.
xnxa day ago
Also playable in browser at https://classicreload.com/play/mac-dark-castle.html
macleginn5 hours ago
If the author sees this: it's "whose old Apples", not "who's". Only mentioning this because it's very prominent on the landing page.
Also the feedback form doesn't work in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
tiltowait4 hours ago
If you've never played it before, Dark Castle really is worth looking at. Its artwork is incredible even before considering the constraints, and its gameplay holds up remarkably well for something from 1986.
bombcar18 hours ago
I'd love to see a Fabien-style Game Engine Black Book for some of these older Macintosh games.
kelsolaara day ago
The download links are all dead.
card_zeroa day ago
chonglia day ago
Might as well link directly to the game:
binaryturtle12 hours ago
I thought it was only me. Or it's temporarily down because some HN overload or something.
QuantumNomad_7 hours ago
Microsoft Azure strikes again!
mjmsmith20 hours ago
Z Sculpt sells an updated version of Return to Dark Castle:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/Return_to_Dark_Ca...
frollogaston3 hours ago
The right way to play this game is on CD-i
CMay18 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.
st3fan21 hours ago
Such a classic. Played these for many hours as a kid.
astennumero16 hours 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?
staplung19 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)
m46317 hours ago
The other thing I remember of that era was the (unrelated) Talking Moose
wickedOne6 hours ago
i still remember the christmas easter egg in there
chrisallick20 hours ago
instill have the floppies :)
kidkujoe5 hours ago
wow nostalgia!
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formvoltron10 hours ago
ahhh.. childhood!
einpoklum21 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.
djmipsan hour ago
Elsewhere in a comment someone posted the archive links which worked - I had fun playing in the emulator on my Windows PC
card_zero20 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.
fzzzy20 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.
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gaythreada day ago
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