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I can't kill anything either even with the weapons. It's really dissapointing because I loved this game as a kid and was sooo excited to find it again. ANybody have any suggestions?

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[IdExMachina]

This was one of the first games I ever played; in fact, it helped teach me to read.

15 years later, turns out Kevin Bales is my jazz theory teacher at college.

[whatshisface]

darn. its not realy interactive is it. I had a cross and i wanted to strike the demon with and it just said what. Any help?

I have the same problem with the speed of the game. I tried using MoSlo to make it run slower, but the screen would just crash after I pressed play and said that I was missing the castle.run file. The file worked fine without MoSlo, but the speed was too fast for me to kill any monsters. Are there any other speed changing programs that I can use to get it to work?

Use DosBox
With ctrl + f11 you can slow down the CPU Cycles. Just get it to about 200 or 300 and the game is playable.
But then, I'm a little stuck. I can't get the fairies and the vampire out of the way. Any help?

I did get the fairies and the vampire out of the way, found almost all items except:
-huge gem
-crystal ball
and I don't know how to get in the wizards secret chamber.

Does anyone have tips
and how can you get the full points, because you can't get all items

Owyeah I love this game.
I used to play it when I was about 7 years old, on my dad's old DOS
I will always memorized how afraid I was when I entered the room with a monster (i'm not enrirely sure what, guess the '@' ) and at one of the higher floors in the castle was a harp or somethin' :whistle:

So like everyone on this topic I've got great youth-memories on this game, and I love to read them :angel:
By the way, I recently found another (almost ancient) game: Sokoban. Man, I was addicted to that game.

But anyway I hope to check out all my youth-games out soon, so I better start searching right away. Have nice memories with the games, y'all

!!!HELP!!!

I can download and run this game fine. When it says press any key and I press the directionals, it moves on. However, when I am at the beginning screen I cant move anywhere!! It is jst the little man and a square around him. (I havent played the real game in so long. Is this the opening room? Or is there text about the castle gate?) The rest of the keys work find excepts the directional pad and the ones on the number pad. ITS SO FRUTRATING!! Please someone help!!

I played this game for years and was never able to get quite 1500 points. I spent many a night as a child lying awake pondering those darn CHAINS attached to the dungeon wall. They "look magical," and every other item that looks magical has some secret purpose or opens to reveal a secret passage, etc. I must have taken every item in the castle into that dungeon room and waved it, rubbed it, "looked it," beaten it on the wall - all to no avail! Does anyone know if there even IS any secret here - or how else it's possible to get the full 1500 points?

And another question!! Sometimes the castle walls disintegrate and weird demons called "14" etc appear. Is this a bug in the programming, or is it caused by letting the evil magic out of the dungeon (not diligently locking the door behind you every time)?

And for those who say it's too easy to die, no way! You obviously came along a little too late, with too fast a computer! Back in the good ol' days, you could almost kill the snake without sword OR helmet!

I was 35 when we got our first PC in 1986. This was the first game we (My wife & 7 yr. old son & I) ever played. We beat it after about 6 months and many hours on the phone with a friend trying to do the same. The graphics were very basic by todays standards. But that wasn't important. It made you think. Our son ended up graduating with a degree in Computer Science. :~)
Paul