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]
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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.