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Added: 21 May 2013
Amsoft was a wholly owned subsidiary of Amstrad, PLC, founded in 1984 and re-integrated with its parent company in 1989. Its purpose was to provide an initial infrastructure of software and services for users of Amstrad's range of home computers, the Amstrad CPC and, from 1986, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Many people's first contact with software on an Amstrad home computer would have been an Amsoft title, as several titles were included in the sales bundles.
While developing its first home computer, the Amstrad CPC464, Amstrad assessed that part of the success of its competitors' machines was the backing of a grown infrastructure of software and services. Being a newcomer to the computer market, Amstrad decided to artificially create this infrastructure for the launch of their own computers.
In February 1984, Amstrad founded its Amsoft division headed by Roland Perry and William Poel who at the time were also overseeing the development of the Amstrad CPC464 itself.
Most prominently, Amsoft acted as the first-party game and business software publisher for Amstrad computers. Most of its software products were licensed from various third-party developers and published under the Amsoft label. This also provided a risk-free means for established software studios to try out their products in the emerging Amstrad CPC market. In addition to publishing software, Amsoft was tasked with press relations and consumer promotion, most notably creating and maintaining the Amstrad User Club and publishing its periodical, the CPC464 User (later Amstrad Computer User).
When a reliable third-party support had been established, Amsoft gradually faded out the publishing of software and sold the Amstrad User Club as well as the user magazine. By 1989, Amsoft was fully integrated with the main Amstrad corporation and ceased to exist as a separate entity. |
Added: 21 May 2013
1984 [edit]
Astro Attack
Blagger
Bridge-It
Electro Freddy
The Galactic Plague
Harrier Attack
Haunted Hedges
Hunchback
Laserwarp
Mr Wong's Loopy Laundry
Mutant Monty
Oh Mummy
Punchy
Quack-a-Jack
Roland Ahoy
Roland on the Ropes
Roland in Time
Roland in the Caves
Roland goes Digging
Roland Goes Square Bashing
Roland on the Run
Spannerman
Space Hawks
Sultan's Maze
Pyjamarama
Detective
Xanagrams
Animal Vegetable Mineral
Happy Letters
Map Rally
Timeman One / L'Horloger 1
Wordhang
Fruit Machine
Amsgolf
Codename MAT
Hunter Killer
Snooker
L'Ardoise Magique
Les Chiffres Magiques
Le Géographe - France
Le Géographe - Monde
L'Horloger 2 / Timeman Two
Les Lettres Magiques
Osprey!
Star Watcher
Admiral Graf Spee
1985 [edit]
Jet-Boot Jack
Airwolf
Assault on Port Stanley
Doors of Doom
Dragon's Gold
Frank 'n' Stein
Friss Man
Fu-Kung in Las Vegas
The Game of Dragons
The Key Factor
Manic Miner
The Prize
Roland in Space
Seesaw
Super Pipeline 2
Supertripper
Sorcery Plus
Cyrus 2 Chess
Masterchess
Happy Numbers
Stockmarket
Traffic
3D Boxing
3D Stunt Rider
Alex Higgins World Pool
Alex Higgins' World Snooker
Glen Hoddle Soccer
Rock Hopper
Strangeloop Plus
Subterranean Stryker
Tombstone
Kingdoms
Braxx Bluff
Overlord 2
Campeones
Classic Racing
L'Apprenti Sorcier
Satellite Warrior
1986 [edit]
Qabbalah
Happy Writing
Nuclear Defence
Golden Path
6128 Games Collection
1987-1989 [edit]
Scalextric (1987)
Tank Command (1988)
Fantastic Voyage (1989) | The Retro Isle team
Added: 27 Oct 2025
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