Comments on: The Vintage Gamer #4: Dark Castle (VG)

By: Tbone922

Tbone922 — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:18:39 +0000

Just wanted to give you guys an update, and provide a link to a Dark Castle forum that’s been going for about a month now:

http://s6.invisionfree.com/Dark_Castle_Forum/

Delta Tao has announced recently (on Joe Williams’ blog) that Return to Dark Castle will (“with luck”) be released this summer, good news for those of us waiting for the game.

Cheers!

By: MetalMan

MetalMan — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:32:36 +0000

http://www.metaltheater.com/DarkCastle/

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:09:05 +0000

I can’t really help you with getting another copy, other than suggesting eBay. Despite the game being out of print, it’s still under copyright, so doing a Google search and downloading any disk images you might find is illegal. If you were to have working disks, it is possible to run them on the PC using a program called Mini vMac.

Sorry if this is unhelpful. That’s why I was encouraging people to support ZSculpt — it might be the only legal way to get it these days, if they’d only come out with it…

By: Nathan G.

Nathan G. — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:47:54 +0000

Hi Jim,

I grew up playing Dark Castle & Beyond Dark Castle on my old Black & White Mac (which I still have) but the floppy disks no longer work. Do you know where I can get another copy of the games for the old Mac, or if not , how I can find and play these games on my PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nathan

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:56:34 +0000

Hi Jim,

Just wanted you to know how great I think your podcast is. It is actually something I’ve been missing. The mix of walk trough games archeology, if you like, and analysis of games and possible tactics, alternative rules and twists, and benefits of certain games is perfect. I really enjoy this show and listen to it on my way to work. Keep up the good work!

Thanks again!
Lars

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:15:13 +0000

Glad you guys liked it — it was a fun one to do. I’ll definitely check out Abuse, particularly since I can run it on the PC (Mur has the Mac). Bungie was a fun company back in the day.

I think part of the problem with early games is that they just didn’t have the sound hardware to do anything interesting — but with 8-bit(!) sound the Mac was better than a lot of the machines out there. My only regret for this podcast was that I didn’t have the cables to get sound out of the Mac directly.

I’ve considered covering M.U.L.E. — however, I’ve never played it, and it’s even tougher to get running than Dark Castle. I’ll have to figure out something since lots of people rave about it. Titan is definitely on the list, and I may try to drag in a friend of mine who’s played it a *lot* more than I have.

By: Brain

Brain — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:37:50 +0000

This podcast brought back vivid memories of playing the game. I’ve got suggestions for future shows. One I’d definitely recommend talking about is M.U.L.E. (assuming that you played it). Also, the board game Titan. Both of those are among my favorite games of all time.

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:02:10 +0000

Oh, fun stuff, and I wasn’t even a fulltime Mac person! You’re so right in highliting the wonderful sound in this game. This morning I explained to my 21st century videogaming son that back then, games didn’t place any real importance on sound as enchancing gameplay. Now it’s obvious, but Dark Castle demonstrated it early on.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:02:04 +0000

If you like dark castle, try Abuse

http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=8027