Magnetic 2.3.1

Magnetic 2.3.1 was released on 19th December 2023, and fixes a buffer over-run found by Address Sanitizer.

Magnetic 2.3.1 includes release 16 of the Windows port, which adds support for Windows' dark mode.

Magnetic 2.3, Windows release 15

Magnetic 2.3 adds support for the in-game music of Wonderland that was originally included with the Amiga, Atari ST, and PC versions.

Release 15 of the Windows port of Magnetic was released on 12th April 2019, and includes these changes:

• Support for high DPI and changing DPI with Windows 10: if the DPI is changed (from the Display settings app, or by moving the window from one monitor to another with a different DPI) then the interpreter rescales itself appropriately.
• The icon and toolbar have been redrawn for a more modern look.
• The option to specify the scaling applied to the title pictures has been removed: the interpreter now works out an appropriate scaling for itself.
• The previous sound playing logic, which used the Amp11 library for MP3 and DirectMusic for MIDI, has been replaced by simpler calls to Windows' Media Control Interface.

Magnetic 2.3

Magnetic 2.3 was released on 12th September 2008, and adds support for the in-game music of Wonderland that was originally included with the Amiga, Atari ST, and PC versions.

Magnetic 2.3 includes release 14 of the Windows port.

Magnetic 2.2, Windows release 13

Magnetic 2.2 provides improved supports for the hints built into the Magnetic Windows releases of games.

Release 13 of the Windows port of Magnetic was released in November 2007, and includes a fix for a crash on closing the window when the interpreter is waiting to show more text.

Magnetic 2.2, Windows release 12

Magnetic 2.2 provides improved supports for the hints built into the Magnetic Windows releases of games.

Release 12 of the Windows port of Magnetic was released in July 2007, and includes improvements to the interpreter's appearance under Windows Vista.

Magnetic 2.2, Windows release 10

Magnetic 2.2 provides improved supports for the hints built into the Magnetic Windows releases of games.

Release 10 of the Windows port of Magnetic was released in February 2007, and includes a correction to the file dialogs to use the Windows 2000/XP look.

Magnetic 2.2

Magnetic 2.2 was released on 6th April 2003, and provides improved support for the hints built into the Magnetic Windows releases of games.

Release 9 of the Windows port of Magnetic was released in October 2004, and includes a correction for dialog problems with large fonts.

Magnetic 2.1

Magnetic 2.1 was released on 11th June 2002, and adds support for the hints built into the Magnetic Windows releases of games, plus a fix that prevents crashes if a Magnetic Windows game tries to access an unsupported feature.

Magnetic 2.1 includes release 6 of the Windows port.

Magnetic 2.0

Magnetic 2.0 was released on 17th December 2000, and provides support for:

• Wonderland, Magnetic Scrolls' last game.
• The versions of Corruption, Fish! and Guild of Thieves from The Magnetic Scrolls Collection, Volume 1.
• The animated graphics in the above games (Windows and 32-bit MS-DOS versions only).
• Games extracted from the Amstrad CPC, Acorn Archimedes, MS-DOS, ZX-Spectrum and ZX-Spectrum+3 formats.

Magnetic 2.0 includes release 5 of the Windows port, which adds new options to have the pictures appear in the main window, and to set a gamma correction value for the pictures.

Magnetic 1.0

Magnetic 1.0 was released on 30th August 1997. This first version could play games converted from the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS Magnetic Scrolls releases, excluding the later ("Magnetic Windows") versions.