Quality Software
{{Infobox company
| name = Quality Software
| logo = Quality_Software_Logo.jpg
| type =
| foundation =
| founder = Bob Pierce
Bob Christiansen
| location_city = Chatsworth, California
Reseda, California
| location_country =
| key_people = James Albanese
Lars X Savant
Denise Delgato
| industry = Video games
Computer software
| num_employees =
| parent =
}}
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.{{cite web
| url = https://dadgum.com/giantlist/
| title = The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers
| access-date = 2008-11-05
| last = Hague
| first = James
}} Asteroids in Space, written by programmer Bruce Wallace, was voted one of the most popular games of 1978-80 by Softalk magazine.{{cite web
|url = http://apple2history.org/history/appy/aha78.html
|title = Most Popular Software of 1978-80
|access-date = 2008-11-05
|year = 1980
|publisher = Softalk
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081210184310/http://apple2history.org/history/appy/aha78.html
|archive-date = 2008-12-10
}}
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){{cite web |title=Assembler |url=http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-assembler_12525.html |website=Atari Mania}}
- 6502 Disassembler by Bob Pierce (Atari 8-bit, 1980){{cite web |title=6502 Disassembler |url=http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-6502-disassembler_12526.html |website=Atari Mania}}
- 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).{{cite journal |last1=Brannon |first1=Charles |title=Review: QS FORTH for Atari |journal=Compute! |date=June 1982 |issue=25 |page=106 |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue25/053_1_REVIEW_QS_FORTH_FOR_ATARI.php}} It was used to write Jeepers Creepers, also by Albanese.
- Character Magic by Chris Hull (Atari 8-bit)
Books
- {{citation|last1=Worth|first1=Don|first2=Pieter|last2=Lechner|title=Beneath Apple DOS|publisher=Quality Software|year=1981|isbn=0-912985-00-3}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.mobygames.com/company/quality-software Quality Software entry] at MobyGames
Category:Defunct software companies of the United States
Category:Defunct video game companies of the United States
Category:Defunct computer companies based in California
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