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Castles

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Castles
Castles cover
Developers
Quicksilver Software
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows October 21, 2008[1]
macOS (OS X) 2012
Linux February 14, 2017[2]
Castles on Wikipedia
Castles
Castles 1991
Castles II: Siege and Conquest 1992

For the unrelated puzzle game, see Castles (2015).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Run in DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the expansion and Castles II: Siege and Conquest. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Northern Campaign
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit CASTLES.BAT[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit CASTLES.BAT.
  3. Remove the casint.exe line and save your changes.

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.*
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.*[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/666660/pfx/[Note 2]
SAVEGAME.DAT contains a save index and must be present for saves to be loaded.
In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared. Some settings are not stored between sessions.
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Can't move down or right with controller

Change joystick timing[citation needed]
  1. Edit the DOSBox configuration file (dosboxCastles1.conf for the GOG.com version).
  2. Change timed=true to timed=false and save your changes.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/666660/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (666660) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References