Any of you remember Castles and Castles 2?

redwing634 · Post by **redwing634** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:30 pm

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 · Post by **Roger** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:38 am

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 · Post by **redwing634** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:47 am

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 · Post by **dayaccus007** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:58 am

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

Post by **wardrich** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:09 am

Are we talking CotW? Or a totally different game?

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

redwing634 · Post by **redwing634** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:56 am

yep here:

It's on Abandonia.

<font color="#dee3e7">/games/190/download/Castles2SiegeConquest.htm</font>

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

redwing634 · Post by **redwing634** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:57 am

no im not Red_Wing on Osprey

Post by **wardrich** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:58 am

redwing634 wrote:no im not Red_Wing on Osprey

Didn't think so... but I wanted to make sure

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu May 17, 2007 6:49 pm

redwing634 wrote:yep here:

It's on Abandonia.

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

abandonware is NOT LEGAL.

and why are you trying to hide part of your message? ;P

Post by **wardrich** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:04 pm

franpa wrote:
redwing634 wrote:yep here:

It's on Abandonia.

Had to chop this up slightly... as we're not really allowed to post abandonware links.
abandonware is NOT LEGAL.

and why are you trying to hide part of your message? ;P

Well, for starters, I was the one that chopped it up and hid the part. Secondly, Abandonware is a gray zone. Do you really think the company that made Castles is still selling it? No. Do you htink they still support it? Probably not. If you call them and make reference to it, do you think they know what you're talking about? I highly doubt it.

That being said, why would they care that it's being passed around for free? They're not losing any money.

redwing634 · Post by **redwing634** » Fri May 18, 2007 7:26 am

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".

Post by **dosraider** » Fri May 18, 2007 7:56 am

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

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

Read carefully "The Law" entry.

discussion*
Sorry redwing634.

redwing634 · Post by **redwing634** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:24 am

*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..