Sunday, June 22, 2025
Commercial Breaks: The Battle For Santa's Software
Sunday, June 8, 2025
The Hunt For Artic House
Artic House, Main Street, Brandesburton, Driffield, YO25
Right from the start, Artic was a company forever being put on and then taken off my
to-do
list. The problem was simple. Artic only had two addresses; one was a house and the other couldn't be located in the real world. This is suboptimal for a blog dedicated to tracking down and photographing the offices of old software houses. I kept a draft page on standby in case I turned up
anything relevant. It sat in the background of this blog for a couple of years until one Sunday around the middle of 2024 I was in a
ruthless mood and culled it and a load of others on the grounds they
would never be used. So long, The Sales Curve. See you
in hell, Aardvark Software. No room for you, The Electronic Pencil
Company. Goodbye, Artic. And that
was it. Deleted. Done. Dusted. I'd never follow Artic up now. Then I
got an email. Most of what follows is Neil's fault.
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≠Unit 3 Addison Industrial Estate, Blaydon, Tyne & Wear, NE21 Tynesoft is my story of failure, hope, failure, more hope, more failure, a...
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Competition House, Farndon Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE19 Lords of Midnight. Lords of Midnight. Lords of Midnight, Lords of M...
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35 Rassau Industrial Estate, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, NP3 British hardware never had the same international profile as British software. The Enterp...
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19 The Rows, The High, Harlow, Essex, CM2 Julian Gollop quite rightly casts a long shadow over this blog. He created Rebelstar Raiders for ...
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Unit 8, Canal Side Industrial Estate, Woodbine Street East, Rochdale, OL16 A was Doug Anderson and F was Mike Fitzgerald and when they got t...
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74 King Street, Dudley, DY2 TO THE STARS! Birmingham, generally lagging behind Manchester and Liverpool for games programming is now making ...
