At the beginning of April 2016 Peter Verdi's Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles website went offline. So far all my attempts to contact Peter failed. His site carried some invaluable interviews with former Magnetic Scrolls people. To preserve the work I temporarily uploaded a dump of his site taken in summer of 2015. All you can see below is 100% Peter's work! Hopefully his site will reappear soon! Peter, if you read this, can you contact me?

 

News Update - February 27, 2009

Fellow Kerovnians!

Another one of those small but fine updates is here. I finally managed to get a hold of Amstrad CPC and IBM-PC versions of "The Pawn" and have added scans of the disk(s) to the "Goodies" section of the "The Pawn" pages of the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles for you to admire. Click here to see the scans in their full glory. The next update will add a little more information to the "Corruption" pages. Until then I remain yours truly ...

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - February 3, 2009

Fellow Kerovnians!

February's here and with it comes, faster than even I expected myself, a new update. The package contents of "Jinxter" are online and can be found in the "Goodies" section of the "Jinxter" pages. If you ever wanted to know what was in the blue "Jinxter" game box, head over here and have a look. Enjoy the update!

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - January 30, 2009

Fellow Kerovnians!

This update will let you take a closer look at the goodies that came with "The Guild of Thieves" ... except for the die. That one will follow whenever I finally make the decision to buy a decent digital camera. In the meantime you can take a closer look at goodies like the "What Burglar" magazine, the contract, the "Bank of Kerovnia" account card that came with the game and some of the various disks of (again, some of) the various patforms the game was released on.

Look out for "Jinxter" receiving the same kind of treatment in the near future.

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - January 4, 2009

Fellow Kerovnians!

First of all I would like to wish all my fellow Kerovnians and readers of this website a belated happy new year!

Speaking of the new year - with it comes a brand new update. I have expanded the "Goodies" section of "The Pawn". Now you can take a closer look at the goodies that came with the game, like the "A Tale Of Kerovnia" novel, the "The Pawn" poster or the various disks and cassettes (of some) of the different platforms the game was released on. The rest of the games will be treated in a similar manner in the near future. I hope you enjoy the update.

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - December 12, 2008

Fellow Kerovnians!

Here's another quick update. This time I have replaced the existing scan of the "Myth" 'box' and goodies with a fresh one of higher quality, as I was not happy at all with the old scan. Like I said before, not a huge update, but nevertheless a definite improvement to the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles. More updates will follow ...

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - December 7, 2008

Fellow Kerovnians!

Not the biggie I had hoped to provide you with (we're still working on it), this update adds a few reviews of "Myth" to the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles. As usual you can access those by either clicking here or by going to the "Text" section of the "Myth"-pages. More reviews for "Fish!", "Wonderland" and "The Magnetic Scrolls Collection Vol. One" will follow shortly.

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - October 14, 2008

Fellow Kerovnians!

I hope you have lots of time for reading these days, as with this update I have added tons of reviews of "Corruption" to the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles pages. If you feel like reliving them olden days by reading those "Corruption" reviews taken from various gaming magazines of the time, either click here or head straight to the "Text" section of the "Corruption"-pages.

A quick teaser to wet the gentle readers' appetites - if everything works out according to plan (and I hear the cynics amongst you say, when does it ever?), then one of the next few updates of the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles *might* be another exclusive biggie ... and that's all I'm going to say for now, so don't even *think* about e-mailing me with all those questions, 'narmean? ;-)

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - September 21, 2008

Fellow Kerovnians!

Another update is coming your way. I have added a few more reviews of Jinxter to the website. The new reviews can be accessed by either clicking here, or by going to the "Text" section of the "Jinxter"-pages.

Have fun reading!

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - September 18, 2008

Fellow Kerovnians!

I have added some more content to the Articles-section of the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles - the infamous "Message In A Microchip" article which was originally published in issue number 55 of Crash magazine. Since everyone and their grandmother dealing with Magnetic Scrolls are hosting this article on their respective webpages I was at first rather reluctant to also feature it on the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles webpages, but since it's such a great article I finally had to give in to temptation. Besides, a webpage dealing with Magnetic Scrolls wouldn't feel complete without this little gem, narmean?

Anyway, without further ado - here it is ... the 'Message in a Microchip'. Enjoy!

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - September 14, 2008

Fellow Kerovnians!

I have made a few layout adjustments to the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles, as some of the content on here was not displayed properly when accessing the pages with the Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers. All the pages should now display in the correct layout when using these browsers. Thank you to all the people who made me aware of the problem. Should you still encounter some problems when trying to access the content on these pages, send me an e-mail and I will look into the matter.

However, these corrections and adjustments do not address possible display problems when visiting this place using resolutions lower than the recommended screen resolution of 1280*1024 pixels.

Have fun exploring the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles. Until the next update.

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)

News Update - July 23, 2008

Fellow Kerovnians!

Once again it's interview time at the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles!

This time I've had the pleasure of talking to Peter Kemp, another co-author of Magnetic Scrolls' venture into the aquatic realms of "Fish!". Like Phil South, Peter was kind enough to agree to do an exclusive interview for the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles. Peter has turned out to be a real fountain of knowledge in terms of interactive fiction and the good old pioneering days of home computers and computer gaming.

The highly interesting result of this conversation can be accessed by clicking here, so if you want to find out all about the good old computer-gaming days, the making of 'Fish!' and Peter's time working for Magnetic Scrolls, head over to the articles section and start reading.

A huge "Thank You" goes out to Peter Kemp for his contribution to the Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles and for being such an interesting and highly enjoyable interview partner! As always, if you, dear reader, feel like sharing your thoughts on the interview, send me an e-mail or post them on the Message Board.

Peter was also kind enough to send me his official Magnetic Scrolls T-shirt. I will post photos as soon as I get my hands on a decent camera. My sincerest thank you's go out to Peter for this absolutely priceless gift.

In other news - the news from May 15 to July 20, 2008 have been archived and can be viewed by going to the News Archive.

Well then, that's it for today's update. Happy reading and enjoy the interview. Until the next time!

- Peter Verdi (webmaster)