I grew up in the DOS era and played quite a few games that I still are fond of. One of them, Castle Adventure, I liked a lot.

As with all older games, CPU timing wasn't a concern. This makes it impossible to play on current machines. You can move around, but when you go to attack a monster they can hit you multiple times and kill you before you can even strike.

This was before DosBox. The old game runs well in DosBox now.

So, I remade it using Allegro and simple graphics. Not very good in my opinion. The original had 40x25 screen and it didn't port over very easily using standard 16x16 tiles.

As a lark, I also remade it again using Pascal and text only. However still for DOS and still had the timing issue.

Surprisingly, there is still a small interest. I watched a live stream of someone playing it. It was refreshing to see someone beat it not knowing about it before.

I also google the name and found my project from over 12 years ago, on GitHub. I flattered and embarrassed. It uses an old version of Allegro (includes "winalleg.h").

The GitHub uploader updated it so I don't know if it's playable or not.

The original game was made by a 14 year old using basic (with exe compiler) back in 1984.