Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a video game company founded in 1980 in Liverpool, initially producing software for the Acorn Atom and ZX80. Bug-Byte's first...
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Soft) Circus Games (Tynesoft) Citadel (Superior Software) City Defence (Bug-Byte) Clogger (Impact Software) Codename: Droid (Superior Software/Acornsoft)...
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The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number...
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Manic Miner (category Bug-Byte Software games)
game written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith. It was published by Bug-Byte in 1983, then later the same year by Software Projects. The first game...
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Aardvark, Datamost, Apple II, Atari 8-bit The Birds and the Bees II: Antics, Bug-Byte, C64, ZX Spectrum Abracadabra!, TG Software, Atari 8-bit Bewitched, Imagine...
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significant deviations. The severity of the FDIV bug is debated. Though rarely encountered by most users (Byte magazine estimated that 1 in 9 billion floating...
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Miner developer Matthew Smith, Alan Maton and Colin Roach. After leaving Bug-Byte as a freelance developer, Smith was able to take the rights to his recently...
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Kamiwaza Wanda (section The Bug Bytes)
Bugdez had defeated by Wonder-Promin when he was in monstrous form. The Bug Bytes (バグバイツ, Bagu Baitsu) is a group of "hackers" who serve their master Don...
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popular in the 1930s and 1940s Zoot, a game on the MSX platform, released by Bug Byte software in 1986 Zoot , a cannabis cigarette Zoot Sims (born John Haley...
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instruction. More formally, the bug is called the invalid operand with locked CMPXCHG8B instruction bug. In the x86 architecture, the byte sequence F0 0F C7 C8 represents...
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Group) (defunct) Blitz Games Studios (defunct) Volatile Games (defunct) Bug-Byte Software Ltd. (defunct) Bullfrog Productions (defunct) CDS Software (defunct)...
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Manic Miner, developed and released by Matthew Smith in 1983, sold by Bug-Byte, one of the first publishers in this market. While a loose clone of the...
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Decepticon originally based on Jetfire. Spacewarp, a software product by Bug-Byte. Space Warp, an ASCII game loosely based on Star Trek. "Spacewarp", a 2015...
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late 1980s. Imagine Software was founded in 1982 by former members of Bug-Byte Mark Butler and David Lawson. Butler and programmer Eugene Evans had previously...
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Synthetic programming (HP-41) (redirect from Synthetic byte grabber)
the user's manual). Synthetic programming uses a bug in the calculator firmware to enter those byte sequences as a sequence of other instructions, then...
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1988 ERE Informatique Captain Dynamo 1993 Codemasters Captain Kidd 1985 Bug-Byte Captain Planet and the Planeteers 1991 Mindscape Software Carlos Sainz...
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characters Styx (Spectrum video game), a 1983 computer game released by Bug-Byte Software Styx (Windmill game), a 1983 computer game Styx: Master of Shadows...
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remakes, homages and updates have been released. Manic Miner (1983), Bug-Byte / Software Projects Jet Set Willy (1984), Software Projects The Perils...
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wrote Monster Muncher in 3 hours. He obtained a ZX Spectrum on loan from Bug-Byte Software Ltd. in return for a freelance contract for three games. The first...
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winning the overall Game of the Year award. New companies: Broderbund, Bug-Byte, HAL Laboratory, Human Engineered Software, Mindscape, On-Line Systems...
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Dunjunz (category Bug-Byte Software games)
made for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers and released by Bug-Byte in 1987. It is essentially a clone of the popular video game Gauntlet where...
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UTF-8 (redirect from Continuation byte)
four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using fewer bytes. It was designed...
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Turmoil (1984 video game) (category Bug-Byte Software games)
game released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum, and in 1986 for the MSX by Bug Byte. The player takes control of Mechanic Mick who has been employed by a rich...
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The Bug-Byte Adrian Sherwin, Andrew Peckham 1983 Cavern Fighter Bug-Byte John K. Jameson 1983 Manic Miner Bug-Byte Matthew Smith 1983 Styx Bug-Byte Matthew...
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Twin Kingdom Valley (category Bug-Byte Software games)
Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and ZX Spectrum. It was released in 1983 by Bug-Byte. Twin Kingdom Valley is a work of interactive fiction where the player...
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Aardvark (video game) (category Bug-Byte Software games)
a maze video game for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 16, published by Bug-Byte in 1986. Aardvark is based on 1982 arcade game Anteater and 1983 Atari...
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been released under the name Star Trader. One such game was released by Bug Byte Software in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, and was one of the...
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synthesis. A poorly implemented Asteroids clone for the VIC-20, published by Bug-Byte, motivated Jeff Minter to found Llamasoft. The Intellivision game Meteor...
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inspired by the success of Liverpool-based software houses Imagine Software, Bug-Byte and Software Projects.: 13–14 Their initial catalogue was based around...
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Styx (Spectrum video game) (category Bug-Byte Software games)
Styx is a shoot 'em up maze video game published by Bug-Byte Software in 1983. It was the first ZX Spectrum game written by Matthew Smith, and the first...
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