Old dos "Castle" game

[SagaLore]

Oh the memories...

Before my teens, I had this IBM PCJr, with the game CASTLE on a 5 1/4 floppy. Awesome little game, it was command line based, and you moved a little character around with the cursor keys. The "graphics" were all generated by a simple ascii set, your guy as well as the monsters were a single ascii character. You would collect treasures and would have to solve puzzles. There was also a secret alternative ending that involved find a wizards staff via a hidden room.

Anybody know what I'm talking about? It was just a simple dos game, where can I find this?

update:
Kenazo
Castle Game

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
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.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

I _might_ have it somewhere still, but finding it would be quite hard.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i remember one like that called 'Hack'
i used to play that game alot. attacking little monsters that looked like @ and things like that.

JB

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
I _might_ have it somewhere still, but finding it would be quite hard.

My hero :gift::wine:

the question is, will it work in XP dos emulation... this was a PCJr.

 

[Psycho18]

I remember one called WOLFENSTEIN (sp).
Since I was little, this game scared the sh!t out of me.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
i remember one like that called 'Hack'
i used to play that game alot. attacking little monsters that looked like @ and things like that.

JB

Castle was one of the first versions on which games like Hack (which later became Nethack) were based on.
Have played Rogue too, which came before Hack still. And played Moria and Angband a lot.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: Psycho14
I remember one called WOLFENSTEIN (sp).
Since I was little, this game scared the sh!t out of me.

....



You HAVE to be 13 to consider wolfenstein old.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: Psycho14
I remember one called WOLFENSTEIN (sp).
Since I was little, this game scared the sh!t out of me.

....



You HAVE to be 13 to consider wolfenstein old.

Or you'd have to know that Wolfenstein first appeared on the Apple Macintosh about 20 years ago.

 

[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

 

[SagaLore]

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.

:beer::beer::beer::beer:
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[Kenazo]

To make gameplay more realistic, make a dos boot disk, then install the game on a second disk, and be sure to switch disks before playing.

I couldn't get the game to work under WinXP (though I didn't try very long). I just did the above trick out of necessity.

 

[SagaLore]

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

UNRECOVERABLE ERROR! GET NEW COPY

 

[Kenazo]

did you manage to unzip it?
it gave me that error to. Put it on a boot disk, and play it in dos. It will work there.

 

[XZeroII]

OMG! That was the first game I ever played on a computer! It was on a relative's 8088 and I loved that game. I played it FOREVER! But I could never beat it

 

[Kenazo]

i've beat it. Perhaps I'll make a guide.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
OMG! That was the first game I ever played on a computer! It was on a relative's 8088 and I loved that game. I played it FOREVER! But I could never beat it

Same thing happened to me when I played Everquest, I could never beat it.




Well now you have it, beat it! I bet I could recreate this game with a few enhacements and run it through web pages. I bet a site like that would become quite popular.

 

[Kenazo]

SagaLore, did you get the game to work? I could only get it to run in actual Dos (using a Win98 CD to boot)

 

[XZeroII]

LOL, IT WORKS!!!! I ran it in a microsoft VM with dos loaded on it

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
SagaLore, did you get the game to work? I could only get it to run in actual Dos (using a Win98 CD to boot)

I'll have to do that later. But thank you very much for providing that for me.

 

[Kenazo]

no prob. Hopefully the copyright has expired on that game, and I'm not doing anything illegal here. uh oh.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

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

freaking awesome!

hehehe plays sound through the internal speaker!

 

[PliotronX]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
OMG! That was the first game I ever played on a computer! It was on a relative's 8088 and I loved that game. I played it FOREVER! But I could never beat it

Same here :beer: Damn those Oger-ASCII-faces!

 

[XZeroII]

WTF!! I keep getting killed. I picked up the sword, but they still kill me the instant that I walk into a room with a monster. How do you weild the sword?

 

[Kenazo]

just keep pushing into them with the arrow key.

 

[cjchaps]

" You are missing the file CASTLE.RAN

Call Kevin Bales at 321-3841 for
a copy of this required data file."

hahahaa