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.

Wow, thanks for that lesson! I owe that guy my career.

But archived!

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

I thought it was only me. Or it's temporarily down because some HN overload or something.

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

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.