Compared to the latest beta that was released 2.5 years ago on the Z Sculpt website, this release is *excellent*.

I experienced no crashes, no glitches, no bugs, and everything that's playable in the demo is feature-complete, including the training and the various new Return to Dark Castle rooms. It's a complete turnaround from beta 13; I thought RoTC was dead, but apparently not!

I noticed one small control scheme difference from the original Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle (if you are pushing up + one direction, Duncan^WBryant will continue up stairs in the other direction as well), which is admittedly minor and easy to adjust to.

What may be really hard to get used to, though, is that all the rooms from the original Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle are colorized, and the sounds have also been updated (when Duncan^WBryant runs across different kinds of ground, the sound his steps make are different), and the three episodes in the Dark Castle series are somewhat integrated via the various ante rooms, which is interesting but well-done.

If you're just looking for nostalgia, you can easily run the original versions of Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle (in their pristine black and white glory) using Mini vMac. But if you want a modern version, Return to Dark Castle (surprisingly) delivers in spades!

Um, version 1.5.86 no longer contains a disk image inside a disk image. That only occurred with the previous version.

OK, guys. If SBE isn't working, you've gotta send me an e-mail. An obscure comment on MacUpdate saying that it just doesn't work won't help me in figuring out the problem. Because bookmark file formats change often, I keep SBE constantly updated. So please send me an e-mail at simX [at] mac [dawt] com if SBE isn't working for you. (BTW, it works for me with Firefox 1.0, or I would've fixed the problem by now.)