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Dream the dream...


EVERYONE HAS READ WONDERLAND...BUT ONLY ONE HAS DREAMED IT... UNTIL NOW!

The newest and largest-ever adventure from Magnetic Scrolls draws you into the bizarre logic of Lewis Caroll's spellbinding imagination. Here you will meet all the main characters from the book - the Mad Hatter, the giant caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts, the Duchess and her cook...

Here, too, you will be confronted by puzzles, puns, and conundrums, potions and mushrooms, a giant puppy and a miniature tunnel, and challenges enough to keep you within Wonderland's perplexing and magical domains for hundreds of hours.

Wonderland - written in Magnetic Windows, the radical new adventuring environment from Magnetic Scrolls - gives you over 100 stunning graphics, many of them animated... but that's not all. A mouse click on an illustration reveals information about the objects shown. Pop-up menus of appropriate commands let you play with a minimum of typing. On-screen maps and help, multiple windows, and icons for every object and room in the adventure combine to make the most sophisticated environment ever created.

It all helps, but in the end it's down to you. Have you the dreampower to dream your way through wonderland ?

Live the dream...

Step into the bizarre logic of Lewis Carroll's spellbinding imagination...

Attend the Mad Hatter's absurd tea party. Meet the caterpillar perched upon his mushrooms, puffing away on his hookah. Drop in on the duchess (is that a baby or a piglet she is holding?) and her temperamental cook.

You, as Alice, face a plethora of puzzles, puns and conundrums. Like how to assist the royal gardeners in painting the roses red before the Queen of Hearts arrives to inspect them. Challenges to perplex and enchant you for hundreds of hours.

But Wonderland insn't just a bewitching story. It's playing environment breaks new ground for computer adventures. Here's what the editor of Computer Gaming World has to say about it:

"The game is neither strictly a text adventure nor can it be described as a graphic adventure. It is its own genre... The game uses multi-tasking to offer an incredible array of features..."

Besides superb graphics and sound support, Wonderland's unique windowing environment offers pull-down verb and noun menus, graphics you can size up or down and move around the screen, automated mapping, point-and-click object manipulation, a compass for directional movement, and extensive on-screen help.

"Innovative," "ambitious" (The Chicago Tribune), "exquisite and impressive" (CGW), "brilliant and insane" (The Electronic Gamer), are more words used to describe Wonderland. Questbusters calls its windowed universe "the ultimate interface." Stunning graphics, impressive sound board support and a captivating story, all in a sophisticated new windowing system, combine to make Wonderland the richest adventure ever: a game to play, to tell, and to inhabit.

Facts

Released:
1990
Distributor:
Virgin Mastertronic
Story:
David Bishop
Graphics:
Alan Hunnisett, Chris Kent, Geoff Quilley and Anna Williams
Music:
Michael Powell
Programming:
Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor
Platforms:
Amiga, Archimedes, Atari ST, IBM PC
Game box contents:
66-page user guide
Wonderland poster
Map
Quick reference guide
Voucher for single-sided disk set (Atari ST)
Disks
Known release versions:
1.21 - IBM PC
 
1.27 - Amiga, Archimedes, Atari ST
Known packages:
Separate boxes for European (18.3 cm x 23 cm - 7.25" x 9") and US market (17.8 cm x 23 cm - 7" x 9"), similiar in extents, but vary in colouring and detail. Besides there finds one subtle difference (have a close look at the playing cards...). The contents of the U.S. box were wrapped in a Virgin/Mastertronic sleeve. The US boxes came in two different flavours: A slipcased box and a two-piece-box.

Game box contents

  • Media:

  • Amiga

    Archimedes

    Atari ST

    IBM PC

    IBM PC

    IBM PC
  • Game manual (PDF, provided by Andreas Scherrer)
  • Wonderland Map (European version, the U.S. version is coloured black/white)
  • Poster
  • Getting started guide: IBM PC, Atari ST/Amiga/Archimedes
  • Quick reference guide
  • Order form for single sided disks (Atari ST)
  • Disk exchange order form (U.S. version only)
  • Sleeve (U.S. version only)
  • Advertising material: "Can u Take A hint ?", Registration form, Order form for other Virgin releases (U.S. version only)

Background information

  • This game introduced the "Magnetic Windows" system, featuring an graphical user interface and a slightly enhanced interpreter.
  • While the U.S. version of the game package does not show the "Magnetic Scrolls play card" on the front cover and the game subtitle is changed to "Live the dream" the included game manual is identical to the European version except for the binding of the book and thus showing the play card and the "Dream the Dream" headline.
  • Wonderland was later also released on a CD-Rom for IBM PC. The game version is identical to the disk version. The CD comes with an additional Virgin installation tool and demos of other Virgin titles. The CD was packaged in a normal jewel case: Booklet outside, Booklet inside, Jewel case back side

Walkthroughs, solutions and more...

Solution
Complete solution, restored from old Sewer doc disk
won-acrk.zip
Unprotect Amiga version
won-pcrk.zip
Unprotect PC version
won-pw.zip
Wonderland password list (Author unknown)
won-pw2.zip
New password list (provided by Sven Siggelkow)
Archived material:
Game manual
(Online version, scans were kindly donated by Jean Marc Barbier)
Quick Reference Guide
(Online version, scans were kindly donated by Jean Marc Barbier)
Getting Started Guide
(Online version, scans were kindly donated by Jean Marc Barbier)

Articles and Reviews

Game reviews - Wonderland
Title Source Authors, Credits File Language
Die 100 besten Spiele - Wonderland (PC) German flag Powerplay Sonderheft 2
page 115
Anatol Locker German flag
Wonderland - Komplettlösung German flag Powerplay 11/91
page 91
Gabriel Müller-Ebeid German flag
Wonderland (Amiga) UK flag Commodore User Amiga 10/90
pages 38-39,41
Keith Campell Download article  UK flag
Wonderland (Amiga) UK flag Amiga Power 06/91
pages 28-29
Jonathan Davies Download article  UK flag
Wonderland (Amiga) UK flag Amiga Action Issue 23 08/91
pages 64-65
? Download article  UK flag
Wonderland (PC) UK flag ACE 38, November1990, page 64
donated by Tim Janssen
Tony Dillon Download article  UK flag
Wonderland (PC) UK flag Computer & Video Games 109, December 1990, page 142 Matt Regan Download article  UK flag
Wonderland UK flag Zero 21, July 1991, page 72 ? Download article  UK flag
Wonderland (Amiga) UK flag Amiga World Vol. 7 Iss. 10, October 1991, pages 76-77
donated by Tim Janssen
Peter Olafsson Download article  UK flag
Powerplay cover featuring Wonderland Powerplay September 1991   Download article
Wonderland (Amiga) Amiga Joker, July 1991
donated by Michael Schmitzer
Max Magenauer Download article
Wonderland (Amiga) UK flag Amiga Format, July 1991, page 107
donated by Tim Janssen
? Download article  UK flag
Wonderland - Complete solution UK flag Zero 12, December 1990, pages 106-107 Mike Gerrard Download article  UK flag
Scorpion's View - Wonderland UK flag Computer Gaming World Iss. 85, page 32pp Scorpia Download article  UK flag
Wonderland preview UK flag Commodore User Amiga 7/90
pages 12-13
Keith Campell Download article  UK flag
A Noun like Alice UK flag The One Iss. 22, pages 88-90 ? Download article  UK flag
Wonderland Amiga Joker Sonderheft 4
donated by Tim Janssen
Max Magenauer Download article
Wonderland (IBM PC) UK flag Compute! 132, Aug. 1991, p. 112 Joey Latimer Download article  UK flag

Availability

Amiga
Archimedes
Atari ST
IBM PC