DOS Games Discussion

redwing634 · Member Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 23

I mostly played Castles 2 back in the day and remember always attacking the pope and getting owned. Never could beat it.

Remembered that the game existed earlier this year, downloaded it, and finally beat it a few times (and had a fun time doing it). To me it seems like an early version of "Age of Empires". I can see where they might have gotten ideas for the age of empires type games from Castles2 (needing resources and all that fun stuff).

Roger · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:38 am Post subject:

I remember playing Castles1. I liked the "visits" and problems you had to solve from time to time, though I don't think they had much impact on the game.
Never went very far in the game, tried it again last year but it wouldn't catch on.

redwing634 · Member Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 23

You should try Castles 2, it can be downloaded for free online,legally. And in my opinion it's a lot more interesting/fun then castles 1 (though I liked that one some too). I bet castles 2 will catch on quickly.

dayaccus007 · Expert Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 137

free online,legally?? a link or something redwing??

wardrich · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:09 am Post subject:

Are we talking CotW? Or a totally different game?

btw: Redwing... you're not Red_Wing on #Osprey are you?

redwing634 · Member Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 23

yep here:

It's on Abandonia.

/games/190/download/Castles2SiegeConquest.htm

Had to chop this up slightly... as we're not really allowed to post abandonware links. --wardrich

redwing634 · Member Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 23

no im not Red_Wing on Osprey

wardrich · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:58 am Post subject:

franpa · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject:

wardrich · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

redwing634 · Member Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 23

if Abandonware wasn't legal, why is it still a website? It's been around forever and they have (to the best of my knowledge) never been sued for anything relating to "illegal file sharing" or "copyright infringement".

dosraider · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 7:56 am Post subject:

Again this endless discution* about AW? Blablablablabla...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware

Read carefully "The Law" entry.

discussion*
Sorry redwing634.

redwing634 · Member Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 23

*discussion =O

And The thing with Abandonia is they are obviously doing something right if they've yet to get shut down. Maybe it's the fact that they dont have free downloads for all the games, only the ones that have no threat of copyright infringement..