Knight Tyme (C64)

Knight Tyme

Platform: Commodore 64 Year: 1988 Developer: Mastertronic Limited

Knight Tyme is the third game in the Magic Knight series, written by David Jones on the ZX Spectrum, illustrated by Ray Owen, and ported to the Commodore 64 by Paul Freeman. For unknown reasons, this third C64 port appeared 3 months after the fourth C64 port.

Screenshots

The title screen with the main menu.

Music

During 2 minutes of loading, you can play Invade-a-load (C64) and listen to a ripped Rob Hubbard song. Afterwards, the main menu appears with a sound effect. To turn the music on, you have to "wear the personal stereo" in-game. David Whittaker did a good job, writing the music in assembly. However, his 2-voice sound effects cannot be turned off and constantly drown out the melodies. Only the sound effects for casting a spell and moving reels are outside Whittaker's driver and emulate the ZX Spectrum's buzzer on the 4th voice. On the game-over window, the music is unworn.

Recording

Invade-a-load was recorded from a real PAL C64C with an 8580 R5 4091.

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Invade-a-load	Rob Hubbard	5:57		Download
02	Game Theme	David Whittaker	3:33		Download

There are issues with the timing of this recording.

Credits

• Ripper: HVSC
• Recorder: Professor Chaos (Invade-a-load), Duc4Wikmedia (the rest)
• Game Credits:
  • Music By: Rob Hubbard
  • Not Credited Composer: David Whittaker
  • Not Credited Arranger: David Whittaker
  • Not Credited Foley Artist: David Whittaker
  • Not Credited Foley Artist: Unknown
  • Not Credited Programmer: David Whittaker

(Source for Hubbard: Invade-a-load (C64). First known sources for Whittaker: HVSC, code recognition. Game lacks audio credits for unknown reasons.)

Game Rip

Format	Download
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Audio Devices

This game uses the computer's built-in SID chip and sounds the same on every one of them. Whether it was officially released in NTSC regions is not known.

Releases

UK Title: Knight Tyme Platform: Commodore 64 Released: 1988-0?-?? Publisher: Mastertronic Limited     France Title: Knight Tyme Platform: Commodore 64 Released: 1988-0?-?? Publisher: Mastertronic Limited     Germany Title: Knight Tyme Platform: Commodore 64 Released: 1988-0?-?? Publisher: Mastertronic Limited     Italy Title: Knight Tyme Platform: Commodore 64 Released: 1988-0?-?? Publisher: Mastertronic Limited

Links

• mobygames.com/game/c64/knight-tyme - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/c64/575263-knight-tyme - GameFAQs.

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