![[Great Britain]](images/flags/uk_britn.gif) Delta 4 Software
They started the label Abstract Concepts in 1987 for serious
adventures.
I mailed Fergus
McNeill, one of the people behind Delta 4 Software, and asked
him about the copyright status of the Delta 4 games and this is
the answer I got (February 1999):
Copyright status varies from one game to the next.
Unfortunately, I've found that trying to grant permission in the
past has resulted in one or two particularly sad people from the
Spectrum newsgroups jumping up and down and questioning which
rights in particular, whether I am able to do this or that, and
basically trying to complicate things. As a result [...] I won't
be making any statements other than to say that one day I'd like
to have the games on the Delta 4 website in some shape or form.
However, that will have to wait until I have more time. If there's
anything else I can do to help though, please let me
know.
Delta 4 Software has a homepage at http://www.delta4.icom43.net/.
They are or have been distributed by CRL Group PLC, Macmillan Software Ltd and SilverSoft.
For more information, see Abstract Concepts.
Sherwood Forest
Type: Drawn graphics
Written 1984 by Fergus McNeill.
Runs on:
 The Dragonstar Trilogy
Type: Text only
Written by Fergus McNeill.
Runs on:
Notes: Divided into three parts.
Quest for the Holy Joystick
Type: Text only
Written 1985 by Fergus McNeill and Jason Somerville in The Quill.
Runs on:
Return of the Joystick
Type: Drawn graphics
Written by Fergus McNeill in The Quill.
Runs on:
Here is a review of Return of the Joystick
 Bored of the Rings
Type: Graphics
Written 1985 by Fergus McNeill in The Quill.
Runs on:
Notes: Divided into three parts. Published by Silversoft Ltd.
Comments: A parody on "Lord of the Rings". This might be based on the book
by the same name by The Harvard Lampoon.
Package blurb: From the far reaches of the west, to the dwarvish caves of
the east, the awesome power of the Great Ring was known.
Even in the Shire, home of the furry-footed boggits, its evil
was feared. All knew of it, all except Fordo Faggins. With
his fat, boggit chums, he made merry, undisturbed by the
circle of gold his uncle Bimbo claimed he'd "found in the
road".
Then, one day, the familiar grey figure of Grandalf, the old
conjuror, came staggering into town. Shortly, a party for all
the obese inhabitants of Boggiton was announced.
Fordo, contemplating these things and their relevance to the
recent appearance of tall, hooded riders with flaming red
eyes, found nothing unusual in it, such was his stupidity.
All he knew was that there was going to be a party. And
parties meant food.
Here is a review of Bored of the Rings
 Robin of Sherlock
Type: Graphics
Written by Fergus McNeill in The Quill and The Illustrator.
Runs on:
Notes: Divided into three parts. Published by Silversoft Ltd.
Comments: A parody on the games Robin of Sherwood by Adventure
International and Sherlock by Melbourne House.
 The Boggit
Type: Drawn graphics
Written 1986 by Fergus McNeill and Judith Child in The Quill.
Runs on:
Notes: Divided into three parts. Published by CRL Group PLC.
Comments: A parody on "The Hobbit".
Package blurb: In a hole in the ground, there lived a Boggit. It was not a
particularly nice hole, nor indeed, a particularly warm hole,
but a hole it was, none the less, and to the little Boggits
it was home.
The hole was in the Shire, a particularly retarded area with
western muddle earth at the time of the third age**. The
Boggit was called Bimbo, Bimbo Faggins, and he was a lazy,
fat Boggit whose only purpose in life was to blow rings and
watch the pretty Elven girls go swimming down at the old mill
pond.
Being contented with his lot, he vowed never to become part
of those adventures which seemed to be growing more
fashionable. Thus when he began to notice bad omens -- a
black sunrise, a six-headed rabbit, and so, when he spotted
Grandalf, the meddling old conjurer, crawling from bush to
bush up his garden lawn, he bolted the door and decided to
spend the day indoors.
But fate cannot so easily be cheated!
** Or somewhere there abouts.
Here is a review of The Boggit
 The Big Sleaze
Type: Drawn graphics
Written 1987 by Fergus McNeill.
Runs on:
Notes: Divided into three parts. Published by Pirahna.
Here is a review of The Big Sleaze
 The Colour of Magic
Type: Bitmap graphics
Written 1986 by Judith Child, Fergus McNeill and Colin Buckett in The Quill and The Illustrator.
Runs on:
Notes: Divided into four parts. Published by Piranha.
Comments: Based on the book of the same title by Terry Pratchett and contains
passages straight from the book.
Package blurb: Enter the extraordinary Discworld, set on a turtle's back.
Meet naive, four-eyed Twoflower, the Discworld's first
Tourist blessed with more money than sense. You are
Rincewind, a youthful Wizard, faced with the miserable task
of guiding the ridiculous Twoflower as he wends his
blundering way. Wherever you go, the many-legged Luggage
will be sure to follow. Meanwhile Death, rather weary from
overwork, has a few surprises in store for you...
Galaxias
Type: Text only
Written 1986 by Fergus McNeill.
Runs on:
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