Knightmare

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Knightmare manual converted to etext by Neil Tomlinson.

Supplied to World of Spectrum by Alessandro Grussu in 2005 AD.



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Knightmare

by ACTIVISION

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'Welcome watchers of illusion

To the castle of confusion...'



Adapted from the brilliant new Anglia Television series, Knightmare the computer

game enables you to take up the challenge to become a knight.



Combining the best elements of traditional adventuring with some hot arcade

action. Activision's Knightmare features puzzles and riddles of a nature not

found before in computer games.





LOADING

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SPECTRUM 48/128K/+

Ensure the cassette is fully rewound. Type LOAD"" and ENTER, then start the

tape.





JOYSTICK NOTES

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"Knightmare" may be played using a joystick in conjunction with selected

keyboard keys, or totally from keyboard, depending upon your own preference.



Interfaces that may be used by Spectrum owners are Kempston, Interface I and

Interface II.







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*KNIGHTMARE*

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Welcome to the game...



This is the Time to end Time;

This is the Time out of Mind;

This is the Game out of Time

And the game to blow your Mind.



"Welcome Watchers of Illusion

To the Castle of Confusion.



I am known as Treguard.

Master of the Dungeons.



Now is the time that your first quest calls

From Damonia Castle's dark halls.

Fighting the evils that creep here

From depths, things that feed on fear.

Spell casting use in times of need.

If ever you are to be freed.



Warning! Warning! I will watch you

and give an occasional clue.

Here be Oracles of good and bad fame:

One named Runius, one Buggane.

Quiz them when you need advising

On all sorts of things surprising.



But the first Knightmare quest is yours

To win or lose (or die, of course).



For here nothing is real

And all must surely be an illusion.

So just keep telling yourself:

'It's only a game...'

Isn't it?"



Let us enter now the book of legend...









I place you somewhere in time, in a land where strangers are not welcome.

Survival is your aim, knowledge is your target. Search the dungeons and rooms of

Damonia Castle for the objects which may help free you from the clutches of the

dark castle and its fantastical inhabitants.



Your advisers are two oracles, who act as clue givers. One oracle is good, and

often gives correct clues in the form of riddles, etc. The bad oracle will do

everything it can to throw the knight into certain danger, and death. The knight

may consult the oracles, but only one will answer, and may not be cross-examined

by the knight. By carefully studying the contents of both oracles' statements,

valuable clues may be learned.



Your life force is represented by a candle at the end of the page. It will

decrease throughout the game. Life force is further decreased each time the

player is hit by a guard, for example, and life force never increases.



Each page of the book details some place within the castle, into which life is

breathed when you direct the knight into it. The dungeon master and oracles

watch over all the knight's actions and each may appear from time to time to

offer comment.





CONTROLLING YOUR KNIGHT

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The knight cannot see due to the necessary full-facial helmet. And so you must

use a joystick and keyboard keys to control the movement of your knight.



Details of the various joystick and keyboard combinations may be found below...





Function Keyboard Key Joystick

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Fire 0 or 5 Fire Button

Move Left 6 or 1 Left

Move Right 7 or 2 Right

Move Down 8 or 3 Down

Move Up 9 or 4 Up

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Pause Game Break

Resume Game Use 'Fire' function

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Quit Game Q then Y

Start Game Hold down 'Fire' function key

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View Words SHIFT

Enter Word ENTER

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Certain inhabitants of the castle will ask you questions and give you problems

to solve. Warning! Read the questions VERY carefully before you select an answer

or solution. Confirm your selection by pressing the fire function.



To perform specific functions within the castle, you may use one or two word

commands.



Select the first word of your required command by pressing the first letter of

that word. If the speech bubble at the top of the screen does not display the

word you require, press the shift key. This will show you the next available

word.



When the speech bubble displays your required first word, press the Enter Word

Function key. A second word will now appear - again, you may alter this word by

pressing the first letter of the required second word or the shift key to cycle

through the available words.



When both words together make the command you wish to use - i.e., open door -

press the Enter Word Function key. This command will now be issued. Be very

choosy!



If you press 'D' and the word 'Drink' is displayed when you wish to Drop

something, press the Shift key until the word 'Drop' appears. Press Enter Word

Function and select the second word in a similar fashion.



You may repeat your last command by pressing Enter twice. You may change the

second word of your last instruction before pressing the Enter key a second time

if you wish. To view the available command words press the Shift key.



Certain commands, such as Load, Save or Quit are one word commands.



To see your inventory (the things you are carrying) press the 'I' key.





SPELLCASTING

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Merlin's Magic. You'll have to work out how to gain these magical powers, but

beware! These powers require experimentation - some of them are good, some of

them are bad. You must establish for yourself which is which.



We know very little about the spells available but old spell books tell us the

following:



To use a spell, you must select the word SPELL as the first word, then the name

of the spell as the second word, then press Enter or the Life button to execute

that spell. Note! You first have to find the spells!





ANVIL:

This is a large, cast-iron anvil, which hovers at the top of the screen, causing

evils to be squashed into the ground.



CASPAR:

Caspar the key. May be used on certain doors within the castle.



ALCHEMY:

Turns characters to a solid gold sphere. Most objects turned to gold may then be

collected by the knight as treasure.



ICE:

A rain cloud will form and freeze everything. As soon as the cloud vaporizes the

characters will come back to life.



TOAD:

Turns characters into 'warty' toads.



METAMORPH:

Turns characters into different characters.





FIGHTING

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In order to fight you will need to find a weapon, such as a sword, then by

moving next to the character you wish to fight and pressing the fire function

repeatedly you will be able to engage in combat.



You may also pick up bricks to throw at other characters. To do this you may

either use the instructions to tell your knight to 'Throw Bricks' or you may set

the first command word to 'Throw' and then use the fire function to trigger the

throwing.





SAVING AND LOADING

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If you choose the command 'Save' this will save your current position for futureusage. You may return to this position by selecting 'Load'. Please note, this is

a RAMSAVE, and is not saved to cassette or diskette, and so if you switch your

computer off you lose your original position.









They say that life is but a game

So welcome to the game...

Where you can lose it;

Your life, that is.









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Knightmare - The computer game presented by Activision.

Conceived and created by MD Software, JP & EM Dean and Focus Creative

Enterprises Ltd.

Knightmare copyright Anglia Television Ltd 1987.

All rights reserved. Computer Game ©1987 Activision.

A Software Studios production.