Microdeal
Microdeal was a British software house, based in Cornwall. As well as publishing in-house games, they specialised in converting american Tandy CoCo software to work on the Dragon. Microdeal mostly supplied their games on cassette, but a few titles were also realeased on 5 1/4" floppy discs.
The venture started in the early 80s and lasted to the early 90s. In September 1985 they decided to reduce their Dragon support to mail-order only, through their Micropost subsidiary. From January 1988 they no longer supported the Dragon, but focused their efforts on the new breed of 16-bits computers.
Microdeal was founded by John Symes and among their in-house programmers we find Steve Bak, Rita Jay and Ed Scio. Tandy CoCo games were converted by Chas Robertson of Northern Software Consultants, the same company that designed the copy-protection "dongle" for the game Buzzard Bait.
The company mascot was a wizz-kid named Cuthbert, who figured both in the company logo and in a series of games. Some of the games were written by in-house programmer Steve Bak, and some were american Tandy CoCo games converted and renamed for the Cuthbert series.
Pocket Money Software was another Microdeal brand that published cheap and simple games at a lower price.
Microdeal also distributed games under the Tom Mix and Computerware (US) labels.
Microdeal people
- Hobb, Alan - sales manager
- Symes, John - managing director
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