ReadySoft explained

ReadySoft Incorporated
Fate:	Purchased by Malofilm, later Behaviour Communications, in 1996.^[1]
Foundation:	1987
Defunct:	1996
Location:	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Industry:	Video games
Key People:	David Foster: founder

ReadySoft was a video game developer and publisher and distributor founded in 1987 by David Foster, based in Ontario, Canada. Products include various emulators as well as home computer ports of Sullivan Bluth's Laser disc game series Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and their sequels. As a publisher, they frequently handled North American release of games by French developer Silmarils.

Emulators

ReadySoft's first product was a Commodore 64 emulator for the Amiga.^[2] In 1992, ReadySoft published the A-Max II and A-Max II Plus Macintosh emulators for the Amiga which were software emulators augmented by add-on hardware.^[3]

Games

Developed or ported by ReadySoft

• Brain Dead 13 (1995)
• (1996) Rerelease
• Space Ace (1995) Rerelease
• (1992)
• Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon (1992)
• Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge (1991)
• (1990)
• Space Ace (1989)

Published or distributed by ReadySoft

• Deus (1996) US release
• (1995) Canadian release of DOS version
• Robinson's Requiem (1994) US release of 3DO and DOS versions
• The Patrician (1993) US release of DOS version
• Arctic Baron (1993) US release of DOS version
• Sleeping Gods Lie (1991) North American release of DOS version
• Volfied (1991) DOS port
• Wrath of the Demon (1990)
• Bomb Busters (1988)
• Rock Challenge (1988)
• Cosmic Bouncer (1988)

External links

• ReadySoft at MobyGames

Notes and References

1. https://videogamegeek.com/videogamepublisher/14214/readysoft ReadySoft | Video Game Publisher
2. https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_39_1990-12_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n86 Into the Lair II
3. https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue146/A22_AMax_II_Plus.php A-Max II Plus