Delta 4

This article is about the UK company. For the space launch vehicle, see Delta IV rocket.

Delta 4 was a British software developer created by Fergus McNeill, writing and publishing interactive fiction.^[1]

Delta 4 designed games between 1984 and 1987. Some were self-published, others were released by CRL Group, Piranha or Silversoft. Delta 4 were also credited with co-publishing Jonathan Nash's tape magazine YS2, issues 2 and 3.^[2]

History

Delta 4 was formed by McNeill with a few friends whilst still at school. Their debut text adventure games were the Dragonstar trilogy ("...like Classic Adventure but without the interesting bits."^[1]) and two Holy Joystick comedy adventures, self-published in 1984. Gilsoft's The Quill was the design software.

Their first critical success was Bored of the Rings, inspired by the Harvard Lampoon novel of the same name.^[1] Published in 1985, it received a Sinclair User Classic award.^[3] They also published Robin of Sherlock.

Games developed

• Sherwood Forest (Delta 4, 1984)
• The Dragonstar Trilogy (Delta 4, 1984)
• Quest for the Holy Joystick (Delta 4, 1984)
• Return of the Holy Joystick (Delta 4, 1984)
• Bored of the Rings (Delta 4/CRL Group, 1985)
• Robin of Sherlock (Silversoft, 1985)
• Galaxias (Delta 4, 1986)
• The Colour of Magic (Piranha Games, 1986)
• The Boggit (CRL Group, 1986)
• The Big Sleaze (Piranha, 1987)
• Murder Off Miami (CRL Group, 1987)

External links

• Official site
• Delta 4 at the Open Directory Project

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Hit Squad". Sinclair User (45). December 1985. http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/045/htsquad.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-27. 
2. ^ "Delta 4 Software". World of Spectrum. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Delta+4+Software$&model=spectrum. Retrieved 2007-11-27. 
3. ^ "Adventure". Sinclair User (40). July 1985. http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/040/advent.htm#bored. Retrieved 2007-11-27. "The humour can be fairly schoolboyish at times and there are a couple of occasions when it is both distasteful and unnecessarily unpleasant. On the whole though the game is great fun and well-produced too." 

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