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Old dos "Castle" game

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

Does anyone have this problem?
 
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. 🙂
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Confirmed, this makes it work on 2003 Server!
 
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.
 
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.
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emulation might be too fast. Could try setting the compatibility to Windows 95...
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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