Magnum Opus is the successor to the programs
The Daily Crossword (a PC-DOS program current from 1992 to 1994)
and
Crossword Express (a program with versions for Windows and Apple Macintosh, current from 1994 to 2009).
It has a wide range of features which allow you to create (both manually and automatically) the diverse range of puzzles
which you can see in the animation above. Extensive details of each puzzle type are available via the following table of links:-
Interactive puzzles Online
Most people are probably aware of the negative security issues surrounding Java Applets. In the future, the online interactive features of
Magnum Opus will be implemented by Web Applications created using HTML5 which is free of all such security problems. The first two of these
for Crossword and Word-search puzzles have been released and a selection of puzzles of each type are available for you to try in
the following:-
A Sampler of Crossword Puzzles.
A Sampler of Word-search Puzzles.
A total of 23 Web Applications are planned, and will be released as they become available.
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Important Information!!
MAGNUM OPUS has been updated to Version 20130610.
Released June 10, 2013
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The program is written in the popular Java language which results in two significant advantages:-
