Article written by Andrew Weston
based on the article that appeared in Issue 284 of Qercus Magazine (© Acorn Publisher) - used with kind permission

Many people might prefer to use the Magnetic Scrolls interpreter, Magnetic, by Niclas Karlsson. This originally enabled text-only versions of the game to be played on a more modern computer and version 1.0 ported for RISC OS by David Lodge can still be found at the Magnetic Scrolls Memorial. However, version 2.2 has since been released and although not listed on the above web-page, two people have ported it to RISC OS. The first port was by Phil Mellor in 2005 and soon after Shaun Lindsley made a port.

Interestingly, both are slightly different and although the latter does not appear to show the full range of colours properly some people may prefer the more compact arrangement. Shaun's site also includes all the games (including Myth) although perhaps unsurprisingly (within a generalised modern interpreter program) there seems to be little difference between the original and later versions of the three games that were updated (or at least publicly released in this form) with the Magnetic Windows system. Game files for both versions of Magnetic are also available at the Magnetic Scrolls Memorial sub-section stated above.