Quality Software is a defunct American software developer and publisher which created games, business software, and development tools for the

Exidy Sorcerer The Sorcerer is a home computer system released in 1978 by the video game company Exidy. Based on the Zilog Z80 and the general layout of the emerging S-100 standard, the Sorcerer was comparatively advanced when released, especially when compar ...

Apple II The Apple II (stylized as ) is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak; Jerry Manock developed the design of Apple II's foam-m ...

, and

Atari 8-bit family The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 as the Atari 400 and Atari 800. The series was successively upgraded to Atari 1200XL , Atari 600XL, Atari 800XL, Atari 65XE, Atari 130XE, Atari 800XE, ...

in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ''Asteroids in Space'', written by programmer Bruce Wallace, was voted one of the most popular games of 1978-80 by ''

Softalk ''Softalk'' () was an American magazine of the early 1980s that focused on the Apple II computer. Published from September 1980 through August 1984, it featured articles about hardware and software associated with the Apple II platform and the peo ...

'' magazine.

Games

;1979 * '' Starbase Hyperion'' by Don Ursem ;1980 * ''Asteroids in Space'' by Bruce Wallace, later renamed ''Meteoroids in Space'' * ''Battleship Commander'' by Matthew Jew and Erik Kilk * ''Fastgammon'' by Bob Christiansen * ''Fracas'' by Stuart Smith * ''Head-On Collision'' by Lee Anders * ''Tank Trap'' by Don Ursem * ''Tari Trek'' by Fabio Ehrengruber ;1981 * ''

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" ( ar, علي بابا والأربعون لصا) is a folk tale from the ''One Thousand and One Nights''. It was added to the collection in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard ...

'' by Stuart Smith * ''Block Buster'' * ''Martian Invaders'' by James Albanese * ''QS Reversi'' by Lee Merrill ;1982 * '' Beneath Apple Manor'' Special Edition by Don Worth * ''Jeepers Creepers'' by James Albanese * ''Name That Song'' by Jerry White ;1983 * ''

The Return of Heracles ''The Return of Heracles'' is a role-playing video game for the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64 and Apple II computers. It was written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983. Following Smith's adventure role playing gam ...

'' by Stuart Smith

Development tools

* Assembler by Gary Shannon (Atari 8-bit, 1980) * 6502 Disassembler by Bob Pierce (Atari 8-bit, 1980) * Exidy Forth by James Albanese (Exidy Sorcerer, 1980) * DPX Development Pac Extension by Don Ursem (Exidy Sorcerer, 1980) * QS Forth by James Albanese (Atari 8-bit, 1981) * Character Magic by Chris Hull (Atari 8-bit)

References

External links

Quality Software entry
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