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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Ever heard of LOAD RUNNER? I certainly hadn't. It's a real curiosity. A computer-themed comic aimed at 9-16 year olds and featuring ...
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KNOWLEDGE CHECK! Which magazine publisher was the first to open a software house? If you said Thalamus, the label from Newsfield Ltd, then s...
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16 Park Street, Bath, Avon, BA1 I don't think I believed my friend when he said he had a computer at home. In fact, I don't think...
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Castle Lodge, Castle Green, Taunton, TA1 DURELL SOFTWARE ARE STILL IN BUSINESS! This is almost unreasonably exciting. Sure, there's quit...
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Eye of the Moon should have been the third part of Mike Singleton's trilogy which began with Lords of Midnight and continued with Doomd...
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Wellington House, Upper St. Martin's Lane, London, WC2H Firebird, or Telecomsoft to give them their more formal name, first appeared ...