Wonderland 1990
Magnetic Scrolls released the original version of Wonderland for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1990. Wonderland is a graphics adventure game based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland of 1865.
Most notably, Magnetic Scrolls had previously developed The Pawn of 1986 and The Guild of Thieves of 1987.
Wonderland was designed and written by David Bishop, composed by Michael Powell and programmed and drawn by a dozen others.
Wonderland is the first adventure game to employ the Magnetic Windows engine designed by Magnetic Scrolls. Magnetic Windows adds a hardware mouse cursor, resizeable and draggable windows as well as an icon-based compass, auto-map and inventory. Naturally, this alleviates much of the text-input burden placed on players by The Pawn and The Guild of Thieves; in addition, making Wonderland more accessible to families. For example, one can simply click on icons in order to get descriptions of the things they represent.
Impressive as well is that Wonderland displays in 16-color square-pixel SVGA 640x480. In addition, some of its graphics are animated and scroll within windows.
Wonderland was distributed on 5x 3.5" 720kB DD diskettes and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Wonderland Install Program. The install size is 5 megs and consists of 18 files. Optional decompression of graphics assets to the hard disk drive consumes 2,450 kbytes of space.
Wonderland sound supports AdLib and Roland LAPC-1.
The Atari ST and Amiga versions were released in 1991.
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