Visual Pinball - The Black Knight

The Visual Pinball Machine

Audit Values

The following audit settings can be adjusted in the file "BlackKnightStats.txt". You will find this file in the "User" folder where visual pinball is installed.

(x) = x is the Williams Black Knight setting.

(05)
(07)
(09)
(11)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)
(42)
(43)
(44)

nSpecial
nMatch
nExtraBall
nBalls
nGamesPlayed
nHighscore
nReplay1
nReplay2
nReplay3
nReplay4
nLast
nMulti
nMystery
TotMyst
AvMyst
TotScore
AvScore

Special awarded
Match credits awarded
Extra Balls
Balls played
Games played
High Score beaten
Replay 1 score credits
Replay 2 score credits
Replay 3 score credits
Replay 4 score credits
Last chance award
Multi Balls
Mysteries awarded
Used for calc below
Average amount awarded for mystery
Used for calc below
Average score

Game Controls

The following game settings can be adjusted in the file "BlackKnightStats.txt". You will find this file in the "User" folder where visual pinball is installed.

(x) = x is the Williams Black Knight setting.

(27)
(30)
(31)
(33)
(34)
(36)
(37)
(38)
(12)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)

SlowCpu
rSpecial
NumBalls
tMagna
tDropTarget
tBonusBall
ExtBallDif
EzLock
LockMem
HighScore
SpecialScore1
SpecialScore2
SpecialScore3
SpecialScore4

Set to 1 if you have a slow computer
Award Special: 0=Credit, 1=ExtraBall
Number of Balls: 3,5
Magna Save, On in seconds: +1
Drop Target Timing: 0-9 +6
Bonus Ball time: 10-99
Number of Target Banks for EB: 2, 4
Easy Lock: 0=Liberal 1=Moderate
Locked Ball Memory: 1=On
Current Highest Score to date
Score for 1st award game (0 = None)
Score for 2nd award game (0 = None)
Score for 3rd award game (0 = None)
Score for 4th award game (0 = None)

Author Notes

I bought a 1980 Williams pinball machine "Black Knight" about 10 years ago. It was not working very well but I had a pinball desire since I started playing them at the local shops when I was about ten years old.
Last Christmas holidays I finally found the time, good technical reference on the WWW and fully restored this machine to a near new condition. Only burnt my finger twice (soldering iron) and got less than a dozen cuts. I'm pleased to say that despite the demise of Williams, pinball will live a long time around here with my kids and all their friends now addicted to the silver ball.
Following an injury and being quite immobilised I discovered Visual Pinball on the net. I have had some experience with VB programming and computer graphics so this seemed a more productive way to spend my computer time than just playing Quake III Arena. Besides, I have a full size blue print only some 5 feet from my computer desk (ideal for a limping fool with too much free time).
The graphics were mostly taken from high quality scans of the original Williams brochure that I found on the net.
I have spent considerable time cleaning up surfaces and building both an upper and lower playfield image map. There are copies on my web site which show these maps with the blue print created from VP.
I would naturally appreciate any feedback regarding any released version. I built this on my PIII 500 but have seen that it as almost unplayable on slower machines. I would like to know if when running on other peoples machines that all the timings are satisfactory.

Playfield Graphics

Untextured | Fully Textured
Lower Texture | Upper Texture