Datamost
{{Short description|American video game publisher}}
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1981}}
| founder = David Gordon
| location_city = Chatsworth, California
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| industry = Computer books
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Datamost was an American computer book publisher and computer game company founded by David Gordon and based in Chatsworth, California. Datamost operated in the early 1980s producing games and other software mainly for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers, with some for the IBM PC. It also published educational and reference materials related to home computers and computer programming.
Video games
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;1981
- County Carnival
- Thief
;1982
- Aztec
- The Bilestoad
- Casino
- Guardian
- Mars Cars
- The Missing Ring
- Money Munchers
- Snack Attack
- Space Strike
- Spectre
- Swashbuckler
- Tharolian Tunnels
- Tubeway
- WizPlus
;1983
- Ardy the Aardvark
- Argos by Ron Lowrance
- Cavern Creatures
- Cohen's Towers
- Conquering Worlds
- Cosmic Tunnels
- Mating Zone
- Monster Smash
- Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory
- Neon
- Nightraiders
- Pandora's Box
- Round About{{cite magazine |title=Marketalk Reviews |date=September 1983 |volume=4 |issue=1 |page=192 |url=https://archive.org/stream/softalkv4n01sep1983/#page/192/mode/2up/search/giarratana |magazine=Softalk |access-date=3 June 2020}}
- Space Ark
- Space Cadette
- Super Bunny
- The Tail of Beta Lyrae
;1984
- Ankh by David Van Brink
- Earthly Delights
- Jet-Boot Jack
- Mabel's Mansion
- My Chess II
- Polar Pierre
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Publications
- How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language (1981) [https://www.scribd.com/doc/2429815/Using-6502-Assembly-Language-by-Randy-Hyde Using 6502 Assembly Language by Randy Hyde | PDF] by Randy Hyde
- The Elementary Commodore-64 (1982) by William B. Sanders, Ph.D.
- How to Write an Apple Program (1982) by Ed Faulk
- Designing Apple Games with Pizazz (1983) by Greg Minter and John Ruffner
- p-Source (A Guide to the Apple Pascal System) (1983) by Randall Hyde
- Games Apples Play (1983) by Mark James Capella and Michael D. Weinstock
- Games Ataris Play (1983) by Hal Glicksman and Kent Simon{{cite book|last1=Glicksman|first1=Hal|last2=Simon|first2=Kent|title=Games Ataris Play|date=1983|publisher=Datamost|isbn=9780881901184|url=http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Games-Ataris-Play.pdf}}
- Games Commodores Play (1983) by Phil Dennis and Greg Minter
- The Elementary Apple (1983) by William B. Sanders
- The Commodore 64 Experience (1983) by Mike Dean KleinPublished by Datamost {{ISBN|0-88190-230-6}}
- The Atari Experience by Adrien Z. Lamothe (1984)
- Atari Roots (1984) by Mark Andrews{{cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Mark|title=Atari Roots|date=1984|publisher=Datamost|location=Chastsworth, CA|isbn=0-88190-171-7|url=http://www.atariarchives.org/roots/title_page.php}}
- The Musical Atari (1984) by Hal Glickman
- The Apple Almanac (1984) by Eric Goez and William Sanders
- Apple Macintosh Primer (1984) by William Sanders
- Inside Commodore DOS (1984, 1985) by Richard Immers and Gerald G. Neufeld
- The Super Computer Snooper (1984) by Isaac Malitz
References
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