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Castle Bastard
Cracked by R. Bubba Magillicutty
Protection: Copylock - hardest protection there is on the IBM.
Graphics: Hercules/CGA/Tandy/EGA
Sound: Good ol' midi-compatible IBM speaker.
Controls: Keyboard/Joystick/Mouse
Notes:
You MUST run the CASTLE.EXE file. It sets the graphics mode before
calling the CMx.EXE file. Running those without the CASTLE.EXE file should
just return you to DOS, though I've occasionally had it stick me in the game
with no graphics; I could hear the game, but couldn't see anything.
I like this game. It's pretty interesting. It seems to be much nicer
than Space Station Oblivion and the others by this author. Probably because
there's more to relate to. Check out the vector horse in the stables. I
find new places to explore every time I play. Like the wizard's house behind
the castle (try using the rug.) The plot of the game is to rescue your twin.
Explore the castle and surrounding areas. Collect keys to get into various
areas. Collect pentacles to get into the pentacle vault. Collect treasure
for points. Collect software to... Oops, never mind. The docs are
included with the program. They're more of a quick-reference, though it's
the entire manual minus the bad poetry ("and so they threw fish guts at the
loon"?) You can find enough cryptic riddles and bad poetry on the yellow
signs throughout the castle ("use" them to read them.) Use Ctrl-ESC to exit
the game at any time and Q from the info screen to return to the main menu.
Another byte-crack of Copylock. All four versions of this were
Copylocked separately, so I had to come up with a more efficient method of
working on them. Rewriting an encryption program for each would be silly. I
stripped off the first 7 levels of encryption (there are at least 27 total in
Copylock) to help. I also fixed up the double message problem but I couldn't
use it in this one. Any output over-writes the opening screen. Working
quickly, I can crack these suckers (Copylocked programs) in 10 minutes each
now. Throw me a fish.
Enjoy the game! The EGA graphics are pretty nice, though in CGA or
Hercules it's somewhat difficult to tell what you're looking at. I couldn't
tell how the Tandy is. Running Tandy graphics in EGA is interesting. You
get vague color ASCII representations of the screen. Enough to test the game
to make sure it works. And it does. If the NYC folks can't get this one to
run, either their computers are defective or THEY are. I'm starting to lean
towards the latter at this point.
A note to cheat-writers: This is mostly to Rescue Raider or Fabulous
Furlough, the people most likely to write a cheat for this thing. There's
not much to cheat on, but something to prevent your strength from going down
would definitely be helpful. The game is encrypted, but instead of writing a
TSR cheat, let me know what you need to change and I can fix it up for you.
Sticking it into the encrypted game is really easy. It's only encrypted two
times, instead of the usual 27 or so. Contact me on The Computer is Your
Chum if you feel like it.
-- R. Bubba Magillicutty
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Greets to Phil Collins! (The THG member, not that other one.)
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