QL Pawn

This is a text adventure where you wake up on a strange island wearing a silver wristband. As you explore the island, you meet a variety of characters, the majority of whom ask you to complete a small task for them.

The Pawn is unfortunately the only Magnetic Scrolls adventure which was published for the Sinclair QL - it was supplied originally on two microdrive cartridges, and included a new operating system, which enabled the feature packed interpreter to allow you to really interact with characters.

The QL version is v1.0 of the game and does only run on systems, which emulates the complete hardware of QL.

Later versions were released for the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and C64, Apple 2, Archimedes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum (amongst others). Magnetic Scrolls used to use a self written cut-down 68k OS emulator to run their games on non-68k hardware.

The Prawn spoof of this adventure was created by Martin Hopkins

Title: QL Pawn
Language: 68000 Machine Code
Author: Magnetic Scrolls - Story by Rob Steggles
Publisher: Sinclair Research
Year of Publication: 1985
Platforms Suitable for: All Sinclair QLs and some emulators (not QPC2)
Commercial Status: Commercial

Sources Available from: n/a
Latest Version available from: RWAP Software website