The Untracables

The worst thing in the world for a blog dedicated to tracking down the offices of old software houses is an incomplete or non-existent postal address. This then is my own personal Room 101; developers and publishers who cannot be located because they never made their address public or because 35+ years of urban redevelopment have been unkind to the history of UK software houses. These are the Untraceables. Presented in alphabetical order because there must be structure even in an Orwellian nightmare.

Denton Designs

30 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L1

When Imagine software went bang in 1984 it's ex-employees scattered across Liverpool; some went to Odin, some to Software Projects, and six went off and set up Denton Designs, their own development house. Steve Cain, Ally Noble, John Gibson, Karen Davies, Graham Everitt, and Ian Weatherburn were the original six. Karen Davies later told CRASH: 'We just sat down and rang round the major software companies offering our services... We were surprised at the reaction we got from companies -it was invariably favourable. Business wise people were naturally a bit wary at first, because of the Imagine reputation, but as programmers and artists we had a good grounding and reputation, and people had heard of us through the Imagine name." (June 1985 page 30)