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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 computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.cite-ref-2[2] Asteroids in Space, written by programmer Bruce Wallace, was voted one of the most popular games of 1978-80 by Softalk magazine.cite-ref-3[3]

Contents

β€’ Games
β€’ Books
β€’ References

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Games

1979

β€’ Starbase Hyperion by Don Ursem

1980

β€’ Asteroids in Space by Bruce Wallace, later renamed Meteoroids in Space
β€’ Battleship Commander by Matthew Jew and Erik Kilk
β€’ Fastgammon by Bob Christiansen
β€’ Fracas by Stuart Smith
β€’ Head-On Collision by Lee Anders
β€’ Tank Trap by Don Ursem
β€’ Tari Trek by Fabio Ehrengruber

1981

β€’ Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Stuart Smith
β€’ Block Buster
β€’ Martian Invaders by James Albanese
β€’ QS Reversi by Lee Merrill

1982

β€’ Beneath Apple Manor Special Edition by Don Worth
β€’ Jeepers Creepers by James Albanese
β€’ Name That Song by Jerry White

1983

β€’ The Return of Heracles by Stuart Smith

Development tools

β€’ Assembler by Gary Shannon (Atari 8-bit, 1980)cite-ref-4[4]
β€’ 6502 Disassembler by Bob Pierce (Atari 8-bit, 1980)cite-ref-5[5]
β€’ Exidy Forth by James Albanese (Exidy Sorcerer, 1980)
β€’ DPX Development Pac Extension by Don Ursem (Exidy Sorcerer, 1980)
β€’ QS Forth by James Albanese (Atari 8-bit, 1981).cite-ref-brannon-1-1[1] It was used to write Jeepers Creepers, also by Albanese.
β€’ Character Magic by Chris Hull (Atari 8-bit)

Books

β€’ citerefworthlechner1981Worth, Don; Lechner, Pieter (1981), Beneath Apple DOS, Quality Software, ISBN 0-912985-00-3

References

cite-note-brannon-11. citerefbrannon1982Brannon, Charles (June 1982). "Review: QS FORTH for Atari". Compute! (25): 106.
cite-note-22. ↑ citerefhagueHague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers". Retrieved 2008-11-05.
cite-note-33. ↑ "Most Popular Software of 1978-80". Softalk. 1980. Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
cite-note-44. ↑ "Assembler". Atari Mania.
cite-note-55. ↑ "6502 Disassembler". Atari Mania.

External links

β€’ Quality Software entry at MobyGames