Old dos "Castle" game

[XZeroII]

It just beeps a lot and I die. It's not turn based

 

[Kenazo]

cjchaps, you have to unzip the entire thing for it to work, or at least castle.exe and castle.ran

xzeroII, when you get to a room that has an ogre just run into him and keep pushing the arrow key in his direction. that should kill him.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
cjchaps, you have to unzip the entire thing for it to work, or at least castle.exe and castle.ran

xzeroII, when you get to a room that has an ogre just run into him and keep pushing the arrow key in his direction. that should kill him.

nope. I just beeps, dumdumdumdumdumdumd for about a second and I die. I even hold the arrow key down and it doesn't work

 

[Kenazo]

weird. it works for me. you sure you have the sword? Did you get the helmet?

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
weird. it works for me. you sure you have the sword? Did you get the helmet?

no helmet. I will have to look for that

 

[XZeroII]

Even with the helmet, I still only get maybe one hit on him before I die

 

[Kenazo]

might have something to do w/ your typematic rate or whatever it's called when you hold down a key and it repeats itself.

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk if you hold down a key how fast does it repeat itself for you?

 

[XZeroII]

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk about one second's worth

 

[Kenazo]

i wonder if the game is tied to the speed of your computer rather than to real time? b/c then in the one second that you are attacking for, the ogre is actually attacking for like an hour worth of 8086 time. anyone want to reprogram that?

 

[SunnyD]

Guys, if you wanna play it in a DOS window on WinXP......

Change all the files to NOT be READ-ONLY

It works fine then.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
i wonder if the game is tied to the speed of your computer rather than to real time? b/c then in the one second that you are attacking for, the ogre is actually attacking for like an hour worth of 8086 time. anyone want to reprogram that?

lol, I wish I could

Does anyone have this problem?

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I have it! I thought nobody else knew about that game.

I'll find you a link, and edit my post.

Get it here

now thats a quick download!

JB

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Guys, if you wanna play it in a DOS window on WinXP......

Change all the files to NOT be READ-ONLY

It works fine then.

Confirmed, this makes it work on 2003 Server!

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I have it! I thought nobody else knew about that game.

I'll find you a link, and edit my post.

Get it here

now thats a quick download!

JB

It's my speedy 30KB/s upload.

 

[Kenazo]

has anybody managed to kill any of the bad guys when playing in windows? I just tried it and it doesn't seem to work for me now. It worked when I played it in dos off a boot disk though.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
has anybody managed to kill any of the bad guys when playing in windows? I just tried it and it doesn't seem to work for me now. It worked when I played it in dos off a boot disk though.

emulation might be too fast. Could try setting the compatibility to Windows 95...

 

[XZeroII]

I booted into DOS on an old Celeron 466 and it worked better, but still not very good. It was still too fast. Does anyone know of a way to slow this down? I know there is an app that will slow down old dos games, but I don't know what it was called.

 

[XZeroII]

I did a bit of research and found an app called moslo and it will slow it down. Basically, I ran castle.exe at 1% of my processor and it was still too fast It was MUCH better, but still too fast

 

[XZeroII]

Ok, for those interested, I got it working right in Windows XP.

Goto http://www.dosgames.com/essential.php and download DosBox and Moslo

Copy the castle folder to C:\Castle

install Dosbox and copy the moslo.exe file to C:\Castle

run Dosbox and type 'Mount C C:\Castle'

type C:

type 'Moslo Castle.exe'

It works fine for me this way. Good luck

I should also note that the save and load are messed up. Do not use them.

 

[AkumaX]

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[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
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[golf clap]

 

[Amorphus]

what if you run it in DOS? would it work at the proper speed then?

 

[datalink7]

This reminds me of another game I used to like. Castles II: Siege and Conquest.

Anyone remember that one?

 

[SagaLore]

Anybody try running it by opening a command.com prompt rather than the default cmd.exe console?

 

[XZeroII]

WHAT??? I only got 300 points??? I collected every single treasure in the game and it said I only collected two items! What a ripoff.