From Linda Wright, owner of Marlin Games
August 23rd, 2013

Many thanks for your email and your interest in my old games. Seems a 
lifetime away when I wrote them.

The two Incentive games were published on a double disk. I'd sent them 
Sharpe's Deeds and they got in touch with me after a great review in 
Computing Weekly (?) by their adventure games reviewer - I can't 
remember his name, sorry. Encouraged by their enthusiasm, I wrote the 
Black Fountain and edited Sharpe's Deeds to improve the game. 
Originally they were going to be published separately but Incentive 
decided to go with the Double Gold idea and released them together. 
Sadly their foray into adventure games was not a success, but it 
spurred me on to write the other four.

By the time of the release of my first two games, PAW had come onto the 
market and I bought my Spectrum in order to use that. I contacted the 
programmers of PAW when there were certain things I struggled with, and 
I seem to recall that they took some of those issues on board to 
improve PAW as well as helping me to work with the software to get the 
most out of it.

It was at this stage that I set up Marlin Games to market my own 
adventures. Eventually Zenobi aka The Balrog took over that side of the 
business, leaving me free to concentrate on the writing. We had a very 
good working relationship until the growth of the web basically 
undermined his ability to prevent piracy, and we agreed to sever the 
agreement. At that point [1997] I decided to let the games circulate on 
the web without any interference.