Magnetic Scrolls was a British video game developer active between 1984 and 1990.

Formed by Anita Sinclair, Ken Gordon and Hugh Steers in 1984, London-based Magnetic Scrolls initially dabbled with development on the Sinclair QL home computer before deciding to take advantage of the emerging Atari ST and Amiga gaming platforms.

Magnetic Scrolls immediately took advantage of the considerable gap in the UK market.

In 1987, Magnetic Scrolls released two new games.

For their next release, Corruption ( 1988 ), Magnetic Scrolls decided to experiment with the boundaries of interactive fiction.

would prove to be the last of Magnetic Scrolls ' traditional commercial releases.

Myth was released in 1989 through Official Secrets, an adventure gaming club set up by Tony Rainbird after he ( and Magnetic Scrolls ) parted ways with Telecomsoft.

Now based in Hertfordshire, Magnetic Scrolls produced this mini-adventure as a freebie that would be given away to those who signed up to join Official Secrets.

Wonderland had been in development at Magnetic Scrolls for some time and was finally released by Virgin Interactive in 1990.

Magnetic Scrolls certainly succeeded in all their objectives, but the traditional text-based genre had already begun to die out as gamers craved more visually elaborate gaming experiences.

In 1991, Virgin Interactive released The Magnetic Scrolls Collection Vol 1, containing new versions of The Guild of Thieves, Corruption and Fish!

As a consequence of the dying text adventure market, Magnetic Scrolls ceased publishing in 1992.

A number of Magnetic Scrolls ' staff went on to help develop a 3D role-playing video game entitled The Legacy: Realm of Terror, which was released on the PC to lukewarm reviews, but MicroProse did not capitalise on the Magnetic Scrolls name beyond that.

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.

* The Magnetic Scrolls Collection Vol 1 ( 1991, Virgin Interactive )

* The Magnetic Scrolls Memorial

* Magnetic Scrolls Fact Sheet

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

Magnetic tape or disk " card-image " files created from such card decks often had no line-separation characters at all, commonly assuming fixed-length 80-character records.

Magnetic fields have had many uses in ancient and modern society.

Under York, the Lab had four main programs: Project Sherwood ( the Magnetic Fusion Program ), Project Whitney ( the weapons design program ), diagnostic weapon experiments ( both for the Los Alamos and Livermore laboratories ) and a basic physics program.

Shackleton's original plans had envisaged using the old Discovery base in McMurdo Sound to launch his attempts on the South Pole and South Magnetic Pole.

Magnetic devices had many of the virtues of the discrete and integrated solid-state devices that would replace them, and were extensively used in military applications.

Magnetic IX caused some problems for photo processors, who found their magnetic reading heads had to be cleaned frequently, or that their equipment's ability to print this information was limited.

Ross, who in 1831 had located the North Magnetic Pole, spent the next two years vainly searching for a sea passage to the South Pole ; later, his name was given to the ice shelf and the sea surrounding it.

Mangum had headlined and curated the ATP event at Butlins Holiday Park, Minehead between March 9 and March 11 of 2012, other bands from the Elephant 6 collective have already been announced to support including Apples In Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control and The Music Tapes as well as other artists chosen by Jeff including Joanna Newsom and The Magnetic Fields.

* 1955 – Magnetic core memory had the same reading writing principle as MRAM

Magnetic torpedoes and mines also had a sort of proximity fuse.

Magnetic wire recording was replaced by magnetic tape recording, but devices employing one or the other of these media had been more or less simultaneously under development for many years before either came into widespread use.

In 1857 Sargent had designed the Sargent's Magnetic Bank Lock, said to be the first successful key changeable combination lock.

Yunbenun, as Magnetic Island was known by the island's traditional inhabitants, had a semi-permanent population of Australian Aborigines well before European exploration of the area.

Previously the University had hosted the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, which had been run by the Meteorological Office of the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries.

Krit occupied two different sites during its history: the first one it took over from the Blomstrom car, and in 1911 moved to the works that had been used by R. M. Owen & Company who had moved to become Owen Magnetic.

Only two, however, had previous polar experience: Alistair Forbes Mackay, the expedition's medical officer, had visited Antarctica with Sir Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition in 1907 – 09, and had been one of the party of three to discover the location of the South Magnetic Pole.

The Lotus series consists of three racing computer games based around the Lotus brand, released between 1990 and 1992 on various formats .. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, and Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge were developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Gremlin Graphics, gaining favourable reviews upon release.

This did not improve the company's prospects, and it was purchased by Ray Owen ( of Owen Magnetic ) in 1923 to produce gas and electric cars under the Rauch and Lang brand.

In 2012, the Magnetic Fields celebrated its new album by launching a North American and European tour.

This show was a special two-night, one morning event in which they played the entirety of The Soft Bulletin one night and a new revamped version of Pink Floyd's 1973 album " The Dark Side of the Moon " and collaborated with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros for a performance of " Do You Realize ??

The new model, combining sight, motion and sound was dubbed the Magnetic Flagman, with production by the Magnetic Signal Company of Los Angeles, though history is unclear as to exactly when the changeover to Magnetic Signal took place.

released a new EP covering " Take Ecstasy With Me " by The Magnetic Fields, and " Get Up " by Nate Dogg.

On August 26, 2007, Wynn debuted a new band, Hazel Motes ( the same name as the protagonist of Flannery O ' Connor's novel Wise Blood ), at Magnetic Fields in Brooklyn, New York.

The facility houses more than 60 new laboratories, a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility, and an electron microscopy suite and supports research in the departments of Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry.

East of the Lion Men's kingdom are the Magnetic Mountains, where Ming the Merciless established a new base of operations after he was defeated and removed from Mongo's throne.

In his book he listed the expedition's main achievements: proof that an expedition could live on Victoria Land over winter ; a year's continuous magnetic and meteorological observations ; an estimate of the current position of the South Magnetic Pole ; discoveries of new species of insects and shallow-water fauna ; coastal mapping and the discovery of new islands ; the first landing on Ross Island and, finally, the scaling of the Great Ice Barrier and the sledging to 78 ° 50 ' S, " the furthest south ever reached by man ".

In 1983 GE Medical started investing heavily in Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( MR ) technology, investing nearly 10 billion US dollars in a new plant in Waukesha, and the MR Signa was born, which would go on to become the very successful MR model range.

Certificate Program in Mammography was authorized in 2000, and two Certificates in Computerized Tomography and in Magnetic Resonance were authorized in 2002 and the new bachelor in Sciences in Diagnostic Images was approved in 2006 under the auspice of the Medical Imaging Technology Program.

Magnetic brakes are a relatively new technology that is beginning to gain popularity due to their high degree of safety.

In order to support their new album, Mastodon toured with Metallica on the latter part of the 2009 European leg of their World Magnetic Tour.

Magnetic scanning systems were previously simply too expensive to use, but recently a multichannel pulse generator became available that is not only fundamentally superior to previous pulse generators in its robustness and resistant to dirt, but also sets a new standard for flexibility.

The abstract with the first tractogram appeared at the August 1992 meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Widespread research in the field followed a presentation on March 28, 1993 when Michael Moseley re-presented the tractographic images from the Filler group — describing the new range of neuropathology it had made detectable — and drew attention to this new direction in MRI at a plenary session of Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in front of an audience of 700 MRI scientists.

Grade 9-10 students have been sent to the new Northrup Frye School ( which has been opened November 18, 2 months earlier then expected ) in Moncton North, which was planned to take in half of all students from Evergreen Park School and Magnetic Hill School.