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| Full title | Colour of Magic, The |
| Year of release | 1986 |
| Publisher | Piranha (UK) |
| Re-released by | Alternative Software Ltd (UK) |
| Author(s) | Delta 4 Software (Fergus McNeill, Judith Child) |
| Tie-in licence | Terry Pratchett (UK) (book: Colour of Magic, The) |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Keyboard |
| Type | Adventure: Text |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £9.95 |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | None |
| Authoring | Authored with Quill Adventure System, The |
| Additional info | Appeared on side A of covertape ZX Files Megatape 2 (ZX Files)
Features Illustrated Adventure Also listed on Wikipedia and Freebase |
| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 |
| Score |
8.21 (21 votes) 
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | Year | ||
|  | ColourOfMagicThe.tzx.zip | 111,798 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 9780333439722 | 1986 | ||
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| | ColourOfMagicThe(different).tzx.zip | 69,117 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 9780333439722 | 1986 | ||
|  | ColourOfMagicThe.tap.zip | 119,874 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) | 1986 | ||||
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| | ColourOfMagicThe(AlternativeSoftwareLtd).tzx.zip | 111,847 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | AS141 | 5015103871414 | 1987 |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | ColourOfMagicThe.gif | 4,759 | (Loading screen) |
| ColourOfMagicThe.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| ColourOfMagicThe.gif | 5,245 | (In-game screen) | |
 | ColourOfMagicThe.jpg | 247,151 | (Game map) |
| ColourOfMagicThe.jpg | 149,965 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| ColourOfMagicThe(AlternativeSoftwareLtd).jpg | 99,156 | (Re-release cassette inlay) |
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| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Sinclair User | 8.86 | page 7 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 8.86 | page 97 | (Preview) | [full page] |
| Crash | 9.86 | page 96 | (Preview) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 9.86 | page 218 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 9.86 | page 6 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 10.86 | page 88 | (Preview) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 10.86 | page 510 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.86 | page 353 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 11.86 | page 41 | (Review) | |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 12.86 | page 318 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 12.86 | page 108 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 1.87 | page 30 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 2.87 | page 52 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 2.87 | page 72 | (Review) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 2.87 | page 56 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 2.87 | page 57 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 3.87 | page 95 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Good Map Guide | 3.87 | page 22 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.87 | page 55 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 4.87 | page 88 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 5.87 | page 63 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.87 | page 79 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.87 | page 64 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.87 | page 72 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.87 | page 72 | (Solution) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 5.87 | page 52 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 7.87 | page 64 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 7.87 | page 71 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 8.87 | page 75 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 10.87 | page 94 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 11.87 | page 114 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 12.87 | page 156 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 12.87 | page 127 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 11.88 | page 99 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 12.89 | page 147 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Computer & Video Games | 10.86 | page 89 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Crash | 11.86 | page 146 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 11.86 | page 87 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 11.86 | page 123 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 12.86 | page 90 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 12.86 | page 19 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 1.87 | page 45 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 4.87 | page 4 | (CompoResult) | [full page] |
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