Quality Software
Quality Software is a defunct American software developer and publisher which created games, business software, and development tools for the Exidy Sorcerer, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit family in the late 1970s and early 1980s.[2] Asteroids in Space, a Quality Software title created by programmer Bruce Wallace, was voted one of the most popular software titles of 1978-80 by Softalk magazine.[3]
| Industry | Video games Computer software |
|---|---|
| Founder | Bob Pierce Bob Christiansen |
| Headquarters | Chatsworth, California Reseda, California[1] |
Key people | James Albanese Lars X Savant Denise Delgato |
Products
Games
- 1979
- Starbase Hyperion by Don Ursem
- 1980
- Asteroids in Space by Bruce Wallace, later renamed Meteoroids in Space
- Battleship Commander by Matthew Jew and Erik Kilk
- Fastgammon by Bob Christiansen
- Fracas by Stuart Smith
- Tank Trap by Don Ursem
- Tari Trek by Fabio Ehrengruber
- 1981
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Stuart Smith
- Block Buster
- Martian Invaders by James Albanese
- QS Reversi by Lee Merrill
- 1982
- Beneath Apple Manor Special Edition by Don Worth
- Jeepers Creepers by James Albanese
- Name That Song by Jerry White
- 1983
- The Return of Heracles by Stuart Smith
Development tools
- Assembler by Gary Shannon (Atari 8-bit, 1980)[4]
- 6502 Disassembler by Bob Pierce (Atari 8-bit, 1980)[5]
- Exidy Forth by James Albanese (Exidy Sorcerer, 1980)
- DPX Development Pac Extension by Don Ursem (Exidy Sorcerer, 1980)
- QS Forth by James Albanese (Atari 8-bit, 1981)[1]
- Character Magic by Chris Hull (Atari 8-bit)
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gollark: There are lots of cool applications now. Automatic generation of art, protein folding, human-level competitive programming, good OCR.
gollark: Ah, but it's *very complicated* curve fitting which can sometimes do interesting things.
gollark: Any particular improvement might not work, but I would be *very very surprised* if people several hundred years ago just happened to stumble on the optimal court system.
gollark: *An* issue is that sentencing can vary significantly based on judges' arbitrary opinions and how they are feeling. So maybe if you averaged over multiple judges once the facts of the case were determined it would help. Although there are a lot of ways for that to go wrong (messing with the framing of those and such).
References
- Brannon, Charles (June 1982). "Review: QS FORTH for Atari". COMPUTE! (25): 106.
- Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers". Retrieved 2008-11-05.
- "Most Popular Software of 1978-80". Softalk. 1980. Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
- "Assembler". Atari Mania.
- "6502 Disassembler". Atari Mania.
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