Ultrasoft

Ultrasoft

Ultrasoft

Slovakian computer game developer-publisher

Ultrasoft was a computer game developer and computer game publisher located in Bratislava, Slovakia.[1][2] The company specialised in the development and publishing of games for the ZX Spectrum home computer. With over 40 titles published,[3] its most successful including the platform game Towdie and puzzle games Atomix and Hexagonia – Atomix 2. Ultrasoft also acted as an exclusive distributor within the territory of Czechoslovakia for Domark and Ocean Software[4] game software houses based in the UK. Apart from computer games, the company also published a dozen or so non-game titles, mostly for learning foreign languages, as well as text, image, sound and music editors.

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The company was founded by Louis Wittek in 1989, and dissolved in 1998.

Published games

Example of Cover Art from some of the Ultrasoft's titles
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Other published titles

  • Baby Mantrik (English for children)
  • Datalog 2 (Database)
  • DTP Machine Utility (DTP editor)
  • DTP Machine Professional Pack (Image/Text/DTP editor)
  • Mantrik Anglicky (Learning English)
  • Mantrik Nemecky (Learning German)
  • Mantrik Editor – Professor (Create your own lessons for Mantrik)
  • Mrs08E (ZX Spectrum Assembler editor)
  • ScreenMachine (Image editor)
  • SoundTracker (Music editor)
  • TextMachine (Text editor)
  • Tuition (Sinclair BASIC for beginners)
  • ZX-7 (Music & Sound editor)

Bit magazine

Cover pages from the first and the last issue of the Bit magazine

Between 1991–1994 Ultrasoft also published a specialised monthly magazine Bit, aimed at owners of home computers and dealing with computer games in particular.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Extract from the Business Register of the District Court Bratislava I". orsr.sk. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  2. [2]
    Švelch, Jaroslav; Olli, Sotamaa (2021). Game Production Studies. Netherland: Amsterdam University Press. pp. 242, 246–247, 310, 329. ISBN 9789048551736. JSTOR j.ctv1hp5hqw. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Ultrasoft - Slovakia". worldofspectrum.org. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
  4. [4]
    Swertz, Christian; Wagner, Michael G. (2010). Game\\play\\society: Contributions to Contemporary Computer Game Studies (in English and German). Austria: kopaed. pp. 265–277. ISBN 9783867362405.
  5. [5]
    Pavel Plíva. "ZX-Spectrum Games". Zx-spectrum.wz.cz. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
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