• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Group) (defunct) Blitz Games Studios (defunct) Volatile Games (defunct) Bug-Byte Software Ltd. (defunct) Bullfrog Productions (defunct) CDS Software (defunct)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Smith, Alan Maton and Liverpool businessman Tommy Barton. After leaving Bug-Byte as a freelance developer, Smith was able to take the rights to his recently...
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  • Mazogs (category Bug-Byte Software games)
    maze video game developed by Don Priestley and published for the ZX81 by Bug-Byte in 1982. It was subsequently licensed by Softsync and published in the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Flyer Fox (category Bug-Byte Software games)
    TYMAC for the Commodore 64 in 1984, with a ZX Spectrum version released by Bug-Byte Software in 1986. In Flyer Fox, the player controls a fighter jet escorting...
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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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  • Rupert and the Ice Castle (category Bug-Byte Software games)
    and the Ice Castle is a video game developed by Taskset and published by Bug-Byte in 1986. It was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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