See Roger Swift.
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See Ultimate.
See Keith Burkhill, Paul Machacek,
and Bob Pape.
Still going; see their Web site.
Still going; see their Web site.
See Jon Ritman and Richard Turner.
Still going; see their Web site.
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Beam Software [Penetrator, The Hobbit, etc.] |
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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.] |
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See John Pickford and Ste Pickford.
See Karl Hampson
and Matthew Smith.
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The rights to CCS's programs are now owned by Alchemist Research,
who allow distribution. Also, see R. T. Smith.
Still going strong, though not doing budget stuff any more. Home page here.
Also see David Spicer and R. Fred Williams.
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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See Fergus McNeill.
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.
See Simon Brattel and Graham Stafford.
Still going, and have a Web site.
Still going in Spain making PC games as Dinamic Multimedia;
visit their Home Page for
further details.
See Ed Hickman and Don Priestley.
Rights now owned by Eidos.
See Mark Incley, Richard Naylor and
John Pragnell.
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Still going strong and have a Web site.
See Mark A. Jones.
Now trading as Elite Systems.
See Keith Burkhill, Paul Holmes and
Duncan Sinclair.
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See Roy Carter.
See Dominic Robinson.
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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See Dominic Robinson.
Still trading as HiSOFT.
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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.
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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See Don Priestley.
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.
Still part of Beam Software, but do have their
own homepage.
See Mike Meek and
Dave Perry.
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Bought out in 1998 by Infogrames.
See Simon Butler, Bernie Drummond,
Mike Lamb,
David Aubrey Jones, Mark R. Jones,
Jon Ritman and Christian Urqhuart.
See Marc Dawson, Stuart Fotheringham,
Colin Grunes, Paul Salmon and Steve Wetherill.
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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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See Glenn Flood, John Hollis
and Bill Witts.
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See Graeme Baird and Ian Oliver.
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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.
See Tony Dillon, Jon North,
Jon Riglar
and Garth Sumpter.
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.
See Ste Cork, Marc Dawson,
Stuart Fotheringham, Colin Grunes
and Matthew Smith.
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See Richard Stevenson.
See Martin Wakeley.
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.
See Alan Cox.
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Ultimate Play The Game/Ashby Computers & Graphics (ACG) |
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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.
Rights now owned by Eidos.
See Keith Burkhill and Ste Cork.
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See Derrick Austin, Andy Craven and
Ciaran Gultnieks.
See Martin Wheeler.
See Mark Haigh-Hutchinson and Costa Panayi.
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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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