Aztec Software is a software company founded by Martin Hooley and Richard Green in the eary 80s. The company was based in a small yorkshire town called Mirfield

Mirfield

Mirfield is a small town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is located on the A644 road between Brighouse and Dewsbury...

 before moving to Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury

Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury

Ravensthorpe is an area of Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire, England. Ravensthorpe is on the western outskirts of Dewsbury and is part of the "Dewsbury West" ward in the district of Kirklees. The area has always been heavily industrial and was once bustling with textile mills. There is now a toxic...

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The company initially wrote educational games. The first notable release by the company where the development kits Turbo Basic

Turbo BASIC

Turbo Basic is a BASIC compiler and dialect originally created by Robert "Bob" Zale and bought from him by Borland. When Borland decided to stop publishing it, Zale bought it back from them, renamed it to PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc...

 and Turbo Basic Compiler. The company was then contracted to produce a version of BBC BASIC

BBC BASIC

BBC BASIC is a programming language, developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the MOS Technology 6502 based Acorn BBC Micro home/personal computer, mainly by Sophie Wilson. It is a version of the BASIC programming language adapted for a U.K...

 for the Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

. Again they used Julian Gardner who wrote their Turbo Basic

Turbo BASIC

Turbo Basic is a BASIC compiler and dialect originally created by Robert "Bob" Zale and bought from him by Borland. When Borland decided to stop publishing it, Zale bought it back from them, renamed it to PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc...

 and Turbo Basic Compiler.

Later on the company produced another compiler for the Enterprise 64 and 128

Enterprise 128

The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80 based home computer first released in 1985. There are two variants, the Enterprise 64 with 64 kB of RAM, and the Enterprise 128 with 128 kB.- Hardware :- CPU, memory and ASIC chips :...

 computers and also produced some external devices for the computer.

The company also worked on the Amstrad CPC

Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,...

 with designer John Morrison

John Morrison

-In politics:* John Morrison , politician in Manitoba, Canada* John Morrison , Canadian Member of Parliament* John Morrison...

 of Morrison Micros.

The company also worked on a Translator that would allow the Atari ST

Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...

 to run IBM PC

IBM PC

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981...

 programs for Atari, of which a patent was talked about.

Product List

• Turbo Basic
  Turbo BASIC
  Turbo Basic is a BASIC compiler and dialect originally created by Robert "Bob" Zale and bought from him by Borland. When Borland decided to stop publishing it, Zale bought it back from them, renamed it to PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc...
  
  
• Turbo Basic Compiler
• Enterprise/Elan/Flan Compiler
• Speakeasy
  Speakeasy
  A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the period known as Prohibition...
  
  
• ROM Extension for Amstrad CPC
• BBC BASIC for C64
• Enterprise Joystick Interface
• Enterprise Mouse
• GEOS Mouse