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2 unusual facts about Magnetic Scrolls


Magnetic Scrolls

Incorporating auto-mapping, icons, help functions and separate, resizable windows for graphics and text, Wonderland, written by David Bishop and based on the works of Lewis Carroll, was a deliberate attempt to push the text adventure in a new, hi-tech direction.

Two programmers from Magnetic Scrolls, Doug Rabson and Servan Keondjian later formed the company RenderMorphics which produced the highly-acclaimed 3D Graphics API Reality Lab In January 1995 another Magnetic Scrolls programmer Steve Lacey joined RenderMorphics and in February of the same year Microsoft acquired the company.


Michael Bywater

He collaborated with Douglas Adams on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Bureaucracy and the never-completed Milliways: The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe for Infocom, and with Georgina Sinclair on Jinxter for Magnetic Scrolls.


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Telecomsoft

Magnetic Scrolls and Argonaut Software were amongst the first developers to benefit from a publishing deal with the label.