ESI

Here is a more detailed look at the coding group that called themselves ESI - or 'Ethanol Soft Incorporated'. They no longer exist as a team, but one or two members still do stuff on the Spectrum and others write quite a bit of stuff for the SAM (for SAM fans: I won't go into it here, I expect you've already heard of E-Tracker and the like anyway).

So just who's in this group then? Last time I heard, it was:

The list of software that ESI have produced is quite large, I have attempted to reproduce some of it here. Only some of it though. Please write to me and specify others you of, I expect I've heard of them - just can't remember who wrote them.

  1. The Lyra
  2. The Lyra 2 - very good multipart demo available as .TAPs at ftp.nvg.unit.no, unfortunately doesn't work on a +2A or +3 except the first two parts.
  3. Shock
    [screen grab]You have full control over the direction and speed of both chessboards - very impressive and good fun too - almost Space Harrier 2!
  4. SoundTracker - a very good music editor for the 128 AY soundchip. Has been superseded (although by commercial) with SQ Tracker and, if you can wait long enough for samples to load by tape, with SampleTracker 2.0
  5. SoundTracker Compiler - to go with the above and so you can play tunes in interrupts or even BASIC in your own programs.

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File last updated: 14 May 1995

Author: John Garner / jmg7@ukc.ac.uk