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Dark Castle

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by evo_9

7 hours ago

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gausswho

3 hours ago

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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).

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DonHopkins

2 hours ago

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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.

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z0r

2 hours ago

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Someone claiming to be the creator of Dark Castle says they are working on a 40th anniversary edition in the comments of that video.

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DonHopkins

2 hours ago

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Another commenter figured out how to spell "Woah! Wueeeueehh, wueeeueehh, wueeeueehh! Mmmbrbrbrbr!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U6v3XyrPLc&t=416s

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xnx

6 hours ago

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Also playable in browser at https://classicreload.com/play/mac-dark-castle.html

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bombcar

1 hour ago

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I'd love to see a Fabien-style Game Engine Black Book for some of these older Macintosh games.

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m463

42 minutes ago

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The other thing I remember of that era was the (unrelated) Talking Moose

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CMay

1 hour ago

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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.

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staplung

3 hours ago

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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)

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st3fan

4 hours ago

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Such a classic. Played these for many hours as a kid.

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kelsolaar

6 hours ago

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The download links are all dead.

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card_zero

5 hours ago

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But archived!

https://web.archive.org/web/20250901121225/https://darkcastl...

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chongli

5 hours ago

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Might as well link directly to the game:

https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2

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mjmsmith

3 hours ago

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Z Sculpt sells an updated version of Return to Dark Castle:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/Return_to_Dark_Ca...

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chrisallick

3 hours ago

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instill have the floppies :)

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einpoklum

4 hours ago

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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.

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card_zero

3 hours ago

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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay

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fzzzy

3 hours ago

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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.