The Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles

Remember how it's like to ride on a cloud? How it feels to be squashed by a bus, or how to get that damned gold disc from Micky? Well, here's your chance to relive all these situations.

Have a chat with the devil in THE PAWN, ransack an entire island in THE GUILD OF THIEVES, restore luck itself to a whole country in JINXTER, uncover a conspiracy in CORRUPTION, become an inter-dimensional secret agent in FISH!, an ancient god in MYTH, walk in the footsteps of Alice in WONDERLAND and inherit a haunted mansion in THE LEGACY. Become a part of the fantasy of Magnetic Scrolls - you certainly won't regret it . . .

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A brief history of Magnetic Scrolls and Acorn - Page Six
Article written by Andrew Weston based on the article that appeared in Issue 284 of Qercus Magazine (© Acorn Publisher) - used with kind permission

Sources of further information

Wikipedia:
A concise history of the company and some further clues as to the destinations of the Magnetic Scrolls staff.

Magnetic Scrolls Memorial:
Probably the best site around and which attempts to document and archive the contents of the games' packages together with interviews and reviews from the times of the games' release dates and later. Also hosts the Magnetic interpreter and games files.

Adventureland:
A brief summary of each game including packaging preamble. Now maintained by Stefan Meier.

The Bird Sanctuary:
The resting place of memories of Telecomsoft's range of games. This is a great site featuring many screenshots from the wide range of platforms the Magnetic Scrolls games were released for, information and, of particular interest, collated memories behind most of the games. Hopefully this will eventually be comprehensive with the site being run by ex-Telecomsoft employees and associates.

Mobygames:
Another good source of information is the games database, Mobygames (http://www.mobygames.com) which includes screenshots and release dates but is not exhaustive - the Archimedes versions being a major omission.

World of Spectrum:
A near-exhaustive archive of information and items relating to the Sinclair Spectrum which contains the emulator files for the Magnetic Scrolls games compatible with Z80em.

IF-Archive:
A resource of manuals, a few utilities for the original games, the interpreters, hints and a comprehensive factfile by Stefan Meier.

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