Sorry, Links Dead Castles of the Wind 1 & 2

- ATI : GREY
- NVIDIA : GREEN
- GMA : GREY

Personal Notes:
I wanted to port Castle Of The Winds to Mac. COTW is one of the first rogue style dungeon games with a GUI that I know of. I started playing it back on Win 3.1 when I was a kid and as of this past week tried a number of wrappers. Doh123's Wineskin is what I'm use to using and it ported fine except the inventory screen was distorted. So I went back to Dosbox and learned how to run windows from my root HD dir. The big question was, can it become portable? Yes!

A year ago I found the Dosbox Classic Game Collection for Mac floating around and grabbed a few games from it. Since these are portable, I just dumped the W31 file in, changed a few things in the dosbox.config and off it went and just completed both chapters of COTW.

Game Description:
Castle of the Winds (CotW) is a tile-based roguelike computer game for Windows 3.x. It was developed by SaadaSoft and published by Epic MegaGames in 1989.
The game is composed of two parts: A Question of Vengeance, released as shareware, and Lifthransir's Bane, sold commercially. A combined license for both parts was also sold. In 1998, the game's author, Rick Saada, decided to distribute the entirety of Castle of the Winds free of charge.

Tested Game-Version: US Release
Roguelike

LINK TO REVIEW COTW 1
LINK TO WALKTHROUGH

LINK TO REVIEW COTW 2
LINK TO WALKTHROUGH

LINK TO CHEATS
LINK TO EDITORS

1. Port Info
DOSbox Mac OSX 0.72 Port

2. Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
- CPU: 1GHZ

Im running Intel 2 Core Duo and started this on 10.6.4 and just updated to 10.6.5. No bugs I've seen. Closes fine.
If you have a more outdated computer an it works fine please post a response! Thanks

3. Known Issues:
Some of these games are old old, meaning when you put the floppy in and booted, the only way to exit the game was to eject the floppy.
If this happens press CONTROL+ESC.
Then go to the desktop of Win 3.11 and click the icon, then SETTINGS, then TERMINATE.
If not use FN+CONTROL+F9 to kill Dosbox

If a game acts like it is not running, hold:
FN+CONTROL+F12 to speed frameskip up - example: Wolf3D
FN+CONTROL+F11 to slow frameskip down

4. Installation:
DL, Uncompress, Drag and Drop to your drive, Play

5. Notes
This is DOSbox running Windows 3.11
SoundBlaster 16 is installed
If you do Joystick go HERE

It loads fast and is small. When it boots take notice of the hotkey commands. Some listed above.
They will come usefull.
Exaple: To release the mouse hold FN+CONTROL+F10

There are a number of extras installed plus some custom icons.

Altered Beast - Asteroids - Battlezone - Buck Rodgers - Castlevania - Castle Of The Winds 1 & 2 - Centiped - Donkey Kong - Missile Command - Oregon Trail - Pac-Man - Space Invaders - Tetris - Tempest - Wolfenstein 3D - Zork

6. Screen Resolution
DOSbox boots at 1344x1004. if this is too big for you screen:
Right click the Windows 3.11 app
Show Package Contents
Then navigate: Contents/Resources/
Open dosbox.conf in TEXTEDIT
Change windowresolution=1344x1004
To windowresolution=original
Or
To whatever you want your DOSbox to load as in resolution.

7. Adding More Games
If you want to add more games:
Right click the Windows 3.11 app
Show Package Contents
Then navigate: Contents/Resources/W31/
Make a new folder
Drag and Drop your games files into that new folder.
Boot Windows
Navigate to FILE MANAGER
Open C:
Open your new folder
Highlight the EXE
Control+Mouse Drag to Games

To change the ICON:
Highlight the game
Goto File\Properties and click change icon
Click Browse or choose a pre-installed one

8. Oh I'm Sorry, Did You Order Non-Portable
If you want this install on your MAC HD.
Open FINDER
Navigate to your HD, not your user name.
Go to Windows 3.11.app and right click
Show Package Contents
Navigate: Contents/Resources
Drag and Drop W31 into you HD which will be root. You'll see the System folder and Users folder in there so you know its the right one.
Download Dosbox for OS X at http://www.dosbox.co...load.php?main=1

Uncompress and put Dosbox into your Applications folder
Open Dosbox and type:

mount c /w31

c:

cd windows

win

If windows boots you put W31 in the right place.

When you Exit Windows 3.11 Dosbox will say:
C:/Windows>
Type: Exit
And Dosbox will close

This is considered running Windows 3.11 off your drive.



Game Videos:


There is movement mouse support. Click the character and drag him where you want to go.

Enjoy


Edit:....I have no clue who made this wrapper in the first place but thank you