Where Is ...? — Companies

16/48 magazine

See Roger Swift.

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Ashby Computers & Graphics (ACG)

See Ultimate.

Activision

See Keith Burkhill, Paul Machacek, and Bob Pape.

Alternative Software

Still going; see their Web site.

Anco Software

Still going; see their Web site.

Artic Computing

See Jon Ritman and Richard Turner.

Audiogenic Software

Still going; see their Web site.

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Beam Software [Penetrator, The Hobbit, etc.]

Still around and happy to let people grab their old games in snapshot form - see their website.
Info by: Fredrik Ekman.

Binary Design [180, Zub, Amaurote, Glider Rider etc.]

See John Pickford and Ste Pickford.

Bug Byte

See Karl Hampson and Matthew Smith.

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CCS

The rights to CCS's programs are now owned by Alchemist Research, who allow distribution. Also, see R. T. Smith.

Codemasters

Still going strong, though not doing budget stuff any more. Home page here. Also see David Spicer and R. Fred Williams.

Crash magazine

Crashed. Was, to their eternal shame, merged with Sinclair User towards the end. See Simon Goodwin, Roger Kean, Lloyd Mangram, Jon North, Barnaby Page, Eddie McKendrick and Nick Roberts.

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Delta 4

See Fergus McNeill.

Denton Designs

Rights now owned by Rage Software. See Dougie Burns, Stuart Fotheringham, Fred Gray, Colin Grunes, John Heap, Dave Lawson, Ally Noble, Paul Salmon and Steve Wetherill.

Design Design

See Simon Brattel and Graham Stafford.

Digital Integration

Still going, and have a Web site.

Dinamic

Still going in Spain making PC games as Dinamic Multimedia; visit their Home Page for further details.

DK'Tronics

See Ed Hickman and Don Priestley.

Domark

Rights now owned by Eidos. See Mark Incley, Richard Naylor and John Pragnell.

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Electronic Arts

Still going strong and have a Web site.

Electric Dreams

See Mark A. Jones.

Elite

Now trading as Elite Systems. See Keith Burkhill, Paul Holmes and Duncan Sinclair.

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Faster Than Light (FTL)

See Gargoyle Games.

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Gargoyle Games/Faster Than Light

See Roy Carter.

Graftgold

See Dominic Robinson.

Gremlin Graphics

Still going strong, though now called Gremlin Interactive. Quite happy for their old games to be distributed, they have a retro page on their web site with some of their games there plus they've released the rights for official distribution to Alchemist News.
Info by: Andy Davis, Russ Juckes.

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Hewson

See Dominic Robinson.

Hisoft

Still trading as HiSOFT.

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Imagine

Imagine went bust and the name was bought by Ocean. Used for a good while, the name eventually disappeared. See Marc Dawson, Alan Fothergill, John Gibson, John Heap, Ally Noble and Ian Weatherburn.

Infogrames

Now a very large software company, and own the rights to a large number of Spectrum games, including all of Ocean's, and consequently Imagine's, back catalogues.

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MacMillian

See Don Priestley.

Mastertronic

Mastertronic was bought up by Virgin, becoming Virgin Mastertronic and went on for a while before disappearing into Virgin Interactive Entertainment. Also see John F. Cain, Ste Cork, David Jones and Binary Design.

Melbourne House

Still part of Beam Software, but do have their own homepage.

Mikro-Gen

See Mike Meek and Dave Perry.

Mirrorsoft

See Keith Burkhill and Robert Erskine.

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Ocean

Bought out in 1998 by Infogrames. See Simon Butler, Bernie Drummond, Mike Lamb, David Aubrey Jones, Mark R. Jones, Jon Ritman and Christian Urqhuart.

Odin Computer Graphics

See Marc Dawson, Stuart Fotheringham, Colin Grunes, Paul Salmon and Steve Wetherill.

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Psion

The company is still going strong of course, making electronic organizers etc. Visit their web site. See also Steve Kelly and Stephen Townsend.

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Quicksilva

See Glenn Flood, John Hollis and Bill Witts.

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Realtime Games Software

See Graeme Baird and Ian Oliver.

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Sinclair Research

While the 'Sinclair' name was sold to Amstrad, Sinclair Research continued on, and is still in existence, still being run by Sir Clive, still producing innovative bits of kit! See also Sir Clive Sinclair and Rupert Goodwins.

Sinclair User

See Tony Dillon, Jon North, Jon Riglar and Garth Sumpter.

Software Creations

Still going strong; see their homepage (even if this was a bit empty the last time I checked). Also see Marc Dawson, Mike Follin and Tim Follin.

Software Projects

See Ste Cork, Marc Dawson, Stuart Fotheringham, Colin Grunes and Matthew Smith.

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Telecomsoft

See Richard Stevenson.

Tiertex

See Martin Wakeley.

Topologika

Produced a couple of adventures on the Spectrum, like Return to Doom. Still going strong as an Acorn educational software house, though they don't do games any more. See their web site.
Info by: Richard G. Hallas.

Tynesoft

See Alan Cox.

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Ultimate Play The Game/Ashby Computers & Graphics (ACG)

Calling themselves Rare and producing console games for Nintendo, e.g. Donkey Kong Country and Killer Instinct for the new Nintendo Ultra 64. Now have some info on their Web site, including stuff on Ultimate, but don't like their games being distributed.
Info by: Dylan Cuthbert, Philip Kendall.

U.S. Gold

Rights now owned by Eidos. See Keith Burkhill and Ste Cork.

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Vektor Grafix

See Derrick Austin, Andy Craven and Ciaran Gultnieks.

Virgin

See Martin Wheeler.

Vortex

See Mark Haigh-Hutchinson and Costa Panayi.

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Your Sinclair magazine

See Linda Barker, Marcus Berkmann, Matt Bielby, Stuart Campbell, Simon Cooke, Tony Lee, Leigh Loveday, Teresa Maughan, David McCandless, Jonathan Nash, Jon North, Clive Parker, Phil South and David Wilson.

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