LockNess Software

Company Owner
Quinn King

Age: ???

Position: Founder

Location
Inverness

Scotland

Company History
LockNess Software was founded by Quinn King on January 5th of 1984, who wanted to make a tool for PCs to carefully inspect photos, namely the Surgeon's Photograph and stills from the Dinsdale film. While he was working on it, he discovered a programming trick for CGA that involves changing the character cell height on the 80x25 text mode, which quadruples the text rows displayed, and using character 221 or 222. After that, by changing the background and foreground colors, each half of these smaller character cells can be treated as a pixel, creating a 160x100 "graphic" mode with 16 colors. However, he realized that this photo tool would require a more powerful computer, and canned it. He then started a adventure game for PC, which was released a few days ago. This game, which translated name is Knight's Quest, sold okay and was well reviewed.

Knight's Quest
Knight's Quest was released in the UK on 5/1/1984 for the PC. A port for the Gamewagon, called Valor, was released in the USA on 11/4/1985.

Gamewagon
LockNess Software made a deal to distribute the Gamewagon in the UK, but the contract has yet to bear fruit. As of 11/11/1985, the Gamewagon has not reached European shores.