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Castle of the Winds is a fun graphical Roguelike RPG designed by Rick Saada and published as shareware by Epic-Megagames.The game contains 2 episodes: the first was titled 'A Question of Vengeance' and is distributed as shareware. The second is 'Lifthransir's Bane' and had a $25 registration price tag. The game is played from a top-down perspective, and like other Roguelike games, it has one huge dungeon with 25 levels deep.Your goal in the first episode is to retrieve an an ancient helm to rightfully claim the throne that is your birthright. Barring your path is the powerful demon lord Surtur. The gameplay is the same as other Roguelikes.
You explore dungeons, evade or disarm traps, defeat monsters, and find treasures and powerful magical items will help you against the demon.The graphics in the game is somewhat cheesy, but passable for a Roguelike. The actually gameplay is deep and involving. There are hundreds of spells and weapons to use, and plenty of monsters to slay. Although it is far from the level of complexity in NetHack or ADOM, Castle of the Winds is fun, intuitive, and easy to get into.If you enjoy Roguelikes, you will like this 'lite' shareware game that has recently been released into the public domain by its author. Highly recommended!Review By HOTUD. Dt 2015-02-14 4 points Windows 3.x versionAs a programmer, technically-skilled Jack of All Trades, and Linux user, I can fill in the stuff stabbim is unsure of.DOSBox and 64-bit systems:DOSBox is a full 386/486/Pentium emulator with a built-in DOS.
Aside from running more slowly on non-x86 chips like the ARM in your phone, it'll give you the same experience everywhere, just like a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis emulator.(There's even a guide to using your old Windows 95 install media with DOSBox for those awkward in-between games which REQUIRED Windows 95/98/ME)In other words, CoTW will work in DOSBox as long as you install Windows 3.1 or later.Wine and 32/64-bit support:Wine can be built in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and they're designed to coexist behind the same 'wine' command. (and 64-bit Linux systems are typically set up to install both if you've got support for 32-bit apps enabled)When you first run Wine and it sets up the virtual hard drive ('prefix', in Wine parlance), it can create either a 32-bit or a 64-bit one.A 32-bit Wine prefix can run 16-bit programs like CoTW on 64-bit Linux with one caveat: The Linux kernel has to have support for 16-bit segments enabled.See for details.(16-bit segments used to be enabled by default but, in 2012, a security hole was discovered. Once they fixed the problem, they left them as opt-in to play it safe since most people don't need them and it's easy for you to turn them on.)The 'Install Install a non-listed program' option in PlayOnLinux gives a nice GUI for setting up multiple Wine prefixes. Stabbim 2014-06-18 10 points Windows 3.x versionI'm very happy I found this game.
My family had part 1 (the shareware part) on an old hand-me-down PC many years ago. I didn't know who the PC came from and had no way to know at the time how to get the rest of the game. I was too young to order it myself.:) I'm not sure what compelled me to go looking for it now, but I was pretty happy to find that it has been released in full form and is now quite easy to obtain.To clear up the will/won't run debate:This is a 16-bit program.
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32-bit Windows PCs can run it natively. 64-bit Windows PCs can't. It's not a matter of whether you're on Windows 7, or 8, or whatever. It's just a matter of your system's architecture. I'm not a computer science expert and I can't explain how processor architecture works and precisely why that is, all I know is 16-bit programs don't run on 64-bit systems without some kind of emulation, or being run inside a virtual machine.In the previous paragraph I specifically said that it won't run natively under 64-bit Windows, rather than saying it won't run on 64-bit PCs at all.
I phrased it that way because I've been running this game on a 64-bit Linux machine through WINE. I didn't have to do anything special to get it to work on 64-bit, but it might be that WINE simulates a 32-bit environment?It might be that you could run this under 64-bit Windows by using DOSBox, which runs a sort of MS-DOS emulation environment. I haven't tested that myself with CotW, but it works for a lot of other old programs. The person who said you need to use DOS may have actually been referring to this method, because the statement that you 'need to use DOS' to launch CotW is incorrect if taken literally. It was designed for Windows 3.1 and runs in a window, with full mouse support, menus, and the like. It doesn't need to run in a full-screen MS-DOS type environment, and you can quite happily launch the.EXE file from Windows Explorer, if you have a system that it will run on in the first place.
FrozenFire 2013-07-02 0 point Windows 3.x versionIt took me a small effort to get Win 3.1 installed via DosBox, but this is what got me through it:you will want to install both the graphics drivers AND the sound drivers. I tried to skip the sound drivers because CotW doesn't have sound, but then windows wouldn't run without the sound drivers.I won't give a link to where you can find a copy of Win 3.1, but if you can't find a copy on your own, then you probably don't have the know-how to get it installed anyway. Bbb 2012-05-21 -1 point Windows 3.x versionSimplest most straightforward way to play on 64-bit system - download free version of Vmware, download Windows 98 iso from a torrent site, download Daemon Tools lite, download ImgBurn.Which is all a bitch.but seemed much more straightforward than any way I could find online:Install Windows 98 in vmware (I burned 98 to CD - then installed). Then, because unless you have the paid version it's a horrible bitch to transfer files to your vmware 98 desktop from your computer's main file system - use imgBurn to turn the castle of the winds files into an.iso.
Then.mount the.iso with daemon tools, and from there - open it in your Windows 98 Vmware desktop.Or if you want to skip the Daemon Tools bits - just burn the Castle of the Winds files to CD, put the CD in, and copy the files to your VmWare 98 desktop.Bam, done. Wasn't that a fun 60 minutes?
But, are now setup to play any other 16-bit games you want.