Star Castle (Vince Pelss)
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About this game
Vince Pelss's Star Castle is an unofficial DOS version of the arcade space shooter. Its controls make an important distinction between steering and thrust: the left and right arrows turn the ship, while the up arrow applies thrust. Pressing an arrow does not simply move the ship to that side of the screen.
Arrow Down fires. This is easy to miss if you expect Space to be the shoot button. F10 opens key redefinition, so check that menu if the current layout does not suit you. Escape quits the program.
Begin with short bursts of thrust while learning to turn and aim. The archive includes several graphics-driver files and two executables; the controls here follow the packaged readme rather than a different Star Castle remake.
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Quick tips
Arrow Down fires; it is not a reverse-thrust key.
Use F10 to inspect or change the keyboard layout.
- Arrow Up
- Apply thrust
- Arrow Left / Arrow Right
- Turn the ship
- Arrow Down
- Fire
- F10
- Redefine keys
- Escape
- Quit
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Rights and Source Notes
Browser play uses the archived Freeware release.
- Distribution
- Freeware
- Browser player
- js-dos · Browser play
- Added to archive
- 2026-07-27