Richard Shepherd Software

Richard Shepherd Software was a software house active between 1982 and 1985. The company was known for releasing text adventure games, most notably Urban Upstart.[1] These were programmed by Richard Shepherd himself and Pete Cooke.

Richard Shepherd Software Ltd
Private
IndustryVideo games
FateFolded
Founded1982, United Kingdom
FounderRichard Shepherd
Defunct1985 (1985)
Headquarters
Maidenhead, Berkshire
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Richard Shepherd, Pete Cooke
ProductsUrban Upstart, Everest Ascent

Richard Shepherd's finance utility, Cash Controller, was the first Spectrum programs to be designed to work with the ZX Microdrive.[2] In 1991 an issue of Amstrad Action (May, No. 68 p. 70) published an artillery game type-in program called Warzone. Consisting of 144 lines of code, the author was noted down as one "Richard Shephard down Bristol way".

List of publications
  • Cash Controller (1983)[3]
  • Devils of the Deep (1983)
  • Everest Ascent (1983)
  • The Inferno (1984)
  • Invincible Island (1983)
  • Jackpot Fruit Machine (1982)
  • Monster Mine (1982)
  • Shaken but not Stirred (1982)
  • Ship of the Line (1982)
  • Ski Star 2000 (1985)[4]
  • Submarine Attack (1982)
  • Super Space Mission (1982)
  • Super Spy (1982)
  • Transylvanian Tower (1982)
  • Upper Gumtree (1984)
  • Urban Upstart (1983)
gollark: Of course, like all intellectual people I run my web hosting on the microcontroller doing the onscreen display for my monitor.
gollark: baidicoot was working on some simple breadboard computer, it seems to be going slowly.
gollark: Ah.
gollark: What? The only information I can find on rwasa is some random politician.
gollark: (also I may eventually want to use ARM)

References
  1. "Ski Star 2000 review". CRASH (14): 120. March 1985. As a software house Richard Shepherd is probably best known for adventure games like Urban Upstart.
  2. "Software News". ZX Computing (8402): 84. February–March 1984.
  3. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=8004
  4. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr15/yr15_51.htm
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