Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software, later ported to various platforms, where it was published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It was designed and illustrated by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay. User-recordable demos were finally enabled in 2008's Return to Dark Castle. Mac OS Classic: Dark Castle (1986). Beyond Dark Castle. Dark Castle (1994). Download Beyond Dark Castle for Mac. Beyonddarkcastle11.zip (3.43 MiB / 3.6 MB) Beyond Dark Castle v1.1 DiskCopy images / Zipped 341. I downloaded the OS9 version of Dark Castle and when trying to run it I get the message that it needs the screen to be set in 2 color mono. I can't figure how to do that in OS 9.2.2 Its a Clamshell Ibook if that makes a difference.
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Developer: Silicon Beach Software This game has hidden development-related text. |
Prince Duncan sets out to topple the Black Knight's throne... literally.
Demo Recording
The published version contains a single gameplay demo, stored in the Castle Preferences file as 'Default', which depicts a Beginner playthrough of Trouble. There is no known way to access the recording functionality seen in the above dialog; deleting the DEMO resource merely results in no demo playing, while deleting the entire prefs file keeps the game from launching at all.
A similar inaccessible dialog exists in the 1988 sequel. User-recordable demos were finally enabled in 2008's Return to Dark Castle.
Compatibility
If launched on a 128K system, the game crashes with a flickering system error dialog before it can even manage to bring up this explanation.
| The Dark Castle series | |
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| Mac OS Classic | Dark Castle (1986) • Beyond Dark Castle • Dark Castle (1994) |
| Genesis | Dark Castle |
| CD-i | Dark Castle |
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