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Time Bandit

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About the game

Time Bandit is one of the early action games that distills the appeal of classic dungeon and Gauntlet-style play into a direct DOS experience: fast movement, limited resources, and a constant focus on staying alive. Our release is aimed at anyone who wants to revisit the original version without getting stuck at the old protection check.

Our loader bypasses the protection check of the supported original release and also handles the game’s internal checksum logic correctly. With F2, we can enable unlimited energy so energy no longer decreases during play. The changes are applied only temporarily and are restored after the game exits normally. For owners of the original game, or the original files, this offers a clean and practical way to launch Time Bandit in a working state.

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Loader v1.0

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File: time_bandit_loader_v1.0.rar
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SHA-256: bd59ed01b246c122ae2fdd4be89d5efa19e96871982e104e459f7d7169bda235
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With the matching keyfile, the waiting period in our loader/trainer is removed. Your purchase also supports our volunteer preservation work.

Optional — this release also works without a keyfile.

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Loader / Trainer Features

Key Features of this Release

A quick overview of what our release fixes, unlocks, or adds when starting and playing the game.

Bypasses the copy-protection or protection check of the supported original version.
Keeps energy, health, or condition values stable.

Orinth says

Time Bandit comes from that early DOS era when action games were happy to mix maze logic, tight energy management, and a very direct sense of pace. It moves quickly and skips the fluff, which is exactly why it still lands: the design cares more about pressure and timing than about dressing itself up. Microdeal shipped it as a brisk, compact run through danger, and the Gauntlet comparison is obvious, but Time Bandit keeps its own stricter personality. It feels less like a grand adventure and more like a disciplined arcade workout with a PC edge. That’s the sort of game where every mistake speaks up immediately, and the clarity is part of the appeal. On modern machines, though, the real obstacle is not the gameplay but the old protection check baked into the executable. The unlimited-energy option is there for anyone who wants to explore instead of constantly babysitting the meter. For owners of the original, that makes this release especially sensible: it gets the game launching cleanly again without getting in the way of the original files.

Our loader handles the protection check and the game’s internal checksum logic, while keeping the changes temporary so the original executable can be restored after a normal exit. That is the kind of careful treatment this sort of release deserves, because it preserves the source material instead of replacing it. F2 for unlimited energy is a straightforward quality-of-life choice, not a noisy overhaul, and it fits the spirit of a preservation-minded setup. The result is a more practical way to revisit Time Bandit on DOS hardware or a current machine, with less friction and more actual play. If you own the game already, this is a clean path back in, built to be useful without rewriting the experience. In other words: the game keeps its old edge, while the loader quietly removes the part that used to trip it up.

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Platform DOS

Archive year 2026

Developer MicroDeal