The Return to Dark Castle Demo is now available as a free download for Apple Macs.
In a time of magic and mythical beasts, the ominous Dark Castle glows eerily under the full moon. For centuries, the evil Black Knight has dwelled within these walls, spreading fear over the once peaceful countryside.
All seemed hopeless until one day, a traveler from a faraway land wandered into the peasant village. He called himself Prince Duncan, and told the townspeople he had come on a quest to vanquish the Black Knight.
Overjoyed that peace might finally be restored to their land, they cheered as Duncan set off toward the castle. But alas, their hero never returned from his valiant quest.
Tales of his bravery were all that were spoken of Dark Castle for many years…. Until now. A new hero has arrived, ready to face the perils of the castle and destroy the cruel Black Knight once and for all.
Minimum Hardware Specs
• Mac OS 10.3.9
• G3 / 500MHz
• 128MB of RAM
• 100MB of free hard drive space
• Turn all special effects off to run at 15 frames per second
Recommended Specs:
• G4 / 1.0GHz
• 256MB of RAM
• 100MB of free hard drive space
Developer Super Happy Fun Fun promises that the full version of Return to Dark Castle “will be available for download on Macintosh computers very, VERY soon.”
More info and download link (70MB, .dmg file) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “bc” for the heads up.]
damn i’m old!!
It’s great to see all of these old farts like me recalling the heyday of the 512×384 black and white Trinitron. I had my MacPlus hacked with an internal muffin fan to aid the passive cooling, and 4MB of RAM, back in 1987.
I still have disks for both of the Dark Castle games, and the Plus still runs, 22 years after it was made. I was just telling a 19 year old kid that I work with how I have about six computers older than he is, and they still run.
I’m literally sitting at the bottom of the world, it is a -99F windchill outside my window, and I am downloading this game across an old weather satellite, using a swanky 4GB 2.4GHz C2D MacBook Pro. My how far we’ve come.
Other Steve,
The monitor you’re thinking of was the Radius Pivot monitor. Very clever hack, by several of the original Mac team members who left Apple to found their own company. Burrell Smith was among them.
-jcr
Speaking of vintage games – any 1 remember Spectre? Whatever happened to that?
This is a really horrible, un-fun game!
And why does it tax the CPU so much if it looks so old?
Is there some kind of emulator to alow play this arcade classics on OS X?
@South Pole Sysadmin – happy to hear you and your MBP are doing well down there! It’s great that the Net can allow this kind of communication and connection between all of us in the Mac world! Take care.
drmacnut with MBP in Hawaii!
Dark Castle! I remember lugging the old MacPlus home from work in what looked similar to a back pack so we could play Dark Castle on the weekends. Great Comback!
Now if they’d bring back Scarab of Ra.
Yep, still have an old disc of this too. My mac plus has a cracked flyback transformer, I had to cram a fan in it to keep it cool, but used to play this all the time…I sucked at it lol.
I love the game. I still have it on my Mac Plus and occasionally play it. Simple but really fun and the sounds are just incredible. Of course, for someone who never knew this computer era, it may look awful but for those like me who discovered the Macintosh in the mid 80’s, it sure brings back great memories !
Anyone know where I can get a copy of those two original disks? I still have mine, but they seem to have had some sort of unfortunate incident with extreme heat in storage. 🙁