Abandonware DOS title

Castlevania

Castlevania is an abandoned side scrolling action game developed by Distinctive Software and released by Konami in 1990. Castlevania runs on DOS. Castlevania is part of the Castlevania game series.
Castlevania screenshot
castlevania-1.jpg - DOS
castlevania-2.jpg - DOS
castlevania-5.jpg - DOS
castlevania-6.jpg - DOS
castlevania-7.jpg - DOS
castlevania-8.jpg - DOS
Genres:
platforms:
released in:
publisher:
developer:
themes:
keywords:
Game modes:
single-player
abandonware
what is abandonware?
Rate this game
3.89 / 5.00 (99 votes)

Share your love for this game

Castlevania downloads

Do you have trouble running this game on Windows? Read this guide.

Main executable game file: castlev/CASTLE.EXE.

DOS games can't run on Windows. You need a DOS emulator like DOSbox or D-Fend Reloaded. Follow these instructions to run DOS games on Windows 10 or later systems.

Video

Video courtesy of Squakenet.com.

Additional info about Castlevania

Arrows: move. Enter: jump. Space: attack. Enter + up: fire special weapon.

Status: abandonware

Input: joystick, keyboard

Distributed on: 5,25 floppy disk

Abandonware DOS views: 17168

Awards won by Castlevania:

Comments

  • FranTesla - 02/06/2023 08:24
    Adding to the comments to get Adlib sound, exit the game in online emulators with Control + Q, so you can run again CASTLE ADL
    (ADL needs to be uppercase)
  • dieymir - 27/07/2020 08:52
    Use command line argument 'ADL' to enable Adlib sounds. Ctrl+B toggles Background Music and Ctrl+E toggles Sound Effects.
  • Bjorn - 11/07/2020 09:23
    You can get Adlib music to work in this game. It seems, by all the youtube videos I've seen, that most people don't know this.
    It doesn't surprise me, because I haven't found any "official" way to activate it. I suspect it might be a commandline switch, or perhaps you need to generate a config file of some kind... not sure.
    But there is an easy fix: just rename to AD.DRV file to PC.DRV (make a backup first of course). Voila. It certainly less excrutiating than PC speaker music.
    There does not seem to be any sound effects though, but that might just be a by-product of this kludge.

    Also, like so many rushed PC ports of the time, the interface and controls are a bit baffling. I've worked out so far that ctrl plus certain keys do things like save, quit and turn things like music and sound on and off. It took me a little while to find out how to fire the secondary weapon, but it's up+space. Seems to be a bit dicey though, but that may have to do with the dosbox settings I was using.
Write a comment
Have you ever played Castlevania? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Write something about it: share your experience, give us hints on how to properly run this game or simply say how much you loved it.