The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol is an interactive fiction computer game based on Frederick Forsyth's 1984 spy novel "The Fourth Protocol". The detective-style gameplay resembles contemporary menu-driven adventures such as "The Vera Cruz Affair", and later titles such as "Yes, Prime Minister" and "Floor 13". The game was released in by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, a subsidiary of the publishing house Hutchinson. It was designed by John Lambshead and Gordon Paterson, and the programming was by Ben Notarianni, Rupert Bowater and Paul Norris of the Electronic Pencil Company. The game was released for the ZX Spectrum in July
The Cutting Edge (novel) The Cutting Edge (novel) The Cutting Edge is a fantasy novel by Dave Duncan "The world of Pandemia seethes with tension as imperial troops wage war along its borderlands and omens predict disaster. When the Protocol which restricts the use of magic begins to break down, only a few handpicked people have a chance to preserve the balance of their crumbling society." (1) The year 3000 is approaching, and life continues as normal for most people. A few, however, are aware that the Protocol (the rules that determine how magic may be used) of the past thousand years is breaking