Instant Software
Instant Software was a company that produced game, utility, and education software in the late 1970s and early 1980s primarily for the TRS-80 line of home computers. Instant Software was a subsidiary of Kilobaud Microcomputing, headquartered in Peterborough, New Hampshire and run by Wayne Green.
History
Green said in 1980 that although his company Instant Software had published "hundreds of programs for the TRS-80 [and] want to translate as many as possible for use on the TI-99/4", it could not find anyone among more than 1,000 developers in its network who could port software to the computer, adding "We understand the problems with the system and the efforts Texas Instruments made to make translation difficult".{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/kilobaudmagazine-1980-08/Kilobaud_Microcomputing_1980_August#page/n7/mode/2up | title=Publisher's Remarks | work=Kilobaud | date= August 1980 | accessdate=23 June 2014 | author=Green, Wayne | pages=8}}
Games
- Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio (1978){{cite book |title=The Software Encyclopedia |year=1985 |publisher=Bowker |pages=343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-w6AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Santa+Paravia%22 |accessdate=2008-09-13}}
- Casino II - Craps (1978){{cite AV media | publisher=Robin Harbron | date=May 9, 2021 | title=Playing a 42.5 Year-Old New Old Stock PC (Personal Computer) Game | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWfHd0dBEzU|series=8-Bit Show And Tell|access-date=July 9, 2021|website=Youtube}}
- Dungeon of Death (1979){{cite journal|title=The Electric Eye|author=Herro, Mark|journal=The Dragon|issue=44|date=December 1980|pages=86–87}}
- Who-Dun-It? (1979){{cite journal|last=Campbell |first=Bruce |date=June 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=40|pages=36}}
- Wordwatch (1979){{cite book |title=Wordwatch Manual |date=1983 |url=https://archive.org/details/Wordwatch_1979_Instant_Software/page/n0 |publisher=Instant Software |via=archive.org}}
- Airmail Pilot (1980){{cite journal|last=Campbell |first=Bruce |date=February 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=36|pages=27}}
- Cosmic Patrol (1980){{cite journal|last=Mishcon |first=Jon |date=December 1980 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=34|pages=35}}
- Money Madness (1980){{cite journal|last=Campbell |first=Bruce |date=May 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=39|pages=35}}
- Danger in Orbit (1981){{cite book |title=Danger in Orbit Manual |url=https://archive.org/details/Danger_in_Orbit_1981_Instant_Software |via=archive.org |publisher=Instant Software |date=1981}}
- Master Reversi (1981){{cite book |title=Master Reversi Manual |date=1981 |publisher=Instant Software |url=https://archive.org/details/Master_Reversi_1981_Instant_Software/page/n0 |via=archive.org}}