Quality Software Explained

Quality Software
Founder:	Bob Pierce Bob Christiansen
Location City:	Chatsworth, California Reseda, California
Key People:	James Albanese Lars X Savant Denise Delgato
Industry:	Video games Computer software

Quality Software is a defunct American software developer and publisher which created games, business software, and development tools for the Exidy Sorcerer, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.^[1] Asteroids in Space, written by programmer Bruce Wallace, was voted one of the most popular games of 1978-80 by Softalk magazine.^[2]

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 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 by Stuart Smith

Development tools

• Assembler by Gary Shannon (Atari 8-bit, 1980)^[3]
• 6502 Disassembler by Bob Pierce (Atari 8-bit, 1980)^[4]
• 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)^[5]
• Character Magic by Chris Hull (Atari 8-bit)

External links

• Quality Software entry at MobyGames

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers. 2008-11-05. Hague. James.
2. Web site: Most Popular Software of 1978-80 . 2008-11-05 . 1980 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081210184310/http://apple2history.org/history/appy/aha78.html . 2008-12-10.
3. Web site: Assembler . Atari Mania.
4. Web site: 6502 Disassembler . Atari Mania.
5. Brannon . Charles . Review: QS FORTH for Atari . Compute! . June 1982 . 25 . 106 .