Spectral Associates Explained
| Spectral Associates |
| Fate: | Defunct |
| Founder: | Thomas Rosenbaum[1] |
| Location: | 3418 South 90th Street, Tacoma, WA 98049[2] and 4633 South 348th Street, Auburn WA 98001[3] |
| Foundation: | 1980[4] |
| Defunct: | Late 1980s[5] | key_people =| products = Computer Games |
Spectral Associates was an American maker of computer games for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was founded in 1980 and went defunct sometime in the late 1980s. Spectral Associates sold their software through Radio Shack and via direct sales. It was a very prolific game company for the TRS-80 Color Computer I and II in its heyday.[6]
Software Publications
Computer Games
- Cave Walker (1986, via Tandy Corporation)[7]
- Color Meteoroids 1.6 (1981)[8] [9]
- Color Space Invaders 1.4 (1981)
- Color Space War (cassette)
- Cubix[10]
- Decathlon
- Froggie
- Galagon
- Ghost Gobbler (cassette/disk)
- Ice Castles[11]
- Interbank Incident (1985–1987)
- Lancer (1983, cassette/disk)
- Lunar Rover 1
- Lunar Rover Patrol (1983, cassette/disk)
- Keys of the Wizard (cassette)[12]
- Madness and the Minotaur (1982, cassette)
- Maze Escape (32K and above, cassette)
- Module Man
- Ms. Gobbler (cassette/disk)
- Pegasus and the Phantom Riders (1985–1987)
- Pengon (cassette)
- Piggy (cassette)
- Planet Invasion (cassette)
- Qix
- Realm of Nauga (cassette)[13]
- Roller Controller
- Space Sentry (cassette/disk)
- Springster (1985–1987)
- Storm Arrows (cassette/disk)
- Treasury Pack 1 (disk) - these treasuries included (not necessarily an all-inclusive list): Keys of the Wizard, Lunar Rover Patrol, Cubix, Module Man, Qix, Roller Controller, Pengon, Decathlon, Lancer, Froggie, Galagon, and Lunar Rover 1
- Treasury Pack 2 (disk)
- Whirlybird Run (1982, cassette/disk)
Computer Games (Educational)
- Alpha Search (educational, cassette/disk)
Applications/Utilities
- Clone 80cc (cassette)
- RGB Patch (disk)[14]
- Demonstration Program (1986, Radio Shack store demo)
- Holiday Demonstration Program (1986, Radio Shack store demo)
Miscellaneous Publications
July 1980 - June 1981
- Introduced a 16K upgrade, ($75.00) an editor/assembler, plus several other utilities and one of the first games: SPACE INVADERS. They were also in the process of developing MAGIC BOX which would enable Model I & III tapes to be loaded into the Color Computer.
July 1981 - June 1982
- Color Computer technical manual (book)
July 1983 - June 1984
- Color Basic Unravelled II (book)[15]
- Disk Basic Unravelled II (book)
- Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)
- Super Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)
Other
- The Facts for the TRS-80 Color Computer (book, Copyright (c) 1983, First printing: Nov 1981, Fifth Printing: Jul 1983)
- CoCo 3 Secrets Revealed
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Madness and the Minotaur - A Mystery Solved . February 6, 2017 . Tea Leaves . February 6, 2017 . Madness and the Minotaur was written by the founder of Spectral Associates, Tom Rosenbaum..
- Web site: Dan Connolly Software Releases. www.w3.org. 31 October 2017.
- Web site: Archived copy . 2007-10-24 . 2011-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720074319/http://textfiles.tonytee.nl/messages/ALANWESTON/1994/DLPH03_22.txt . dead .
- Web site: Coco Chronicles. www.cs.unc.edu. 31 October 2017. 29 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191129024601/http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/history.html. dead.
- http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2007-October/032677.html [Coco] Spectral Associates Wikipedia entry<!-- Bot generated title -->]
- Web site: Colorout. 31 October 2017.
- http://coco_docs.tripod.com/id45.htm Cave Walker
- Web site: Archived copy . 2007-10-24 . 2007-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203202652/http://coco.clubltdstudios.com/reference/cocopricelist.txt . dead .
- Web site: TRS-80 Cassette Software Page. 31 October 2017.
- Web site: The CoCo Collector January 2006. 31 October 2017.
- Web site: Dragon Software Directory by Publisher. Graham E.. Kinns. dragon32.info. 31 October 2017.
- Web site: Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe - Vault - Keys of the Wizard. yois.if-legends.org. 31 October 2017.
- [L. Curtis Boyle]
- Web site: The Tandy Color Computer SuperSite. 31 October 2017.
- Web site: Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site: Documentation - Books. www.trs-80.com. 31 October 2017.
