Richard Shepherd Software

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Richard Shepherd Software Ltd
TypePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded1982, United Kingdom
FounderRichard Shepherd
Defunct1985 (1985)
FateFolded
Headquarters
Maidenhead, Berkshire
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Richard Shepherd, Pete Cooke
ProductsUrban Upstart, Everest Ascent

Richard Shepherd Software was a software house active between 1982 and 1985. The company was known for releasing text adventure games, most notably Urban Upstart.[1] These were programmed by Richard Shepherd himself and Pete Cooke.

Richard Shepherd's finance utility, Cash Controller, was the first Spectrum program to be designed to work with the ZX Microdrive.[2] In 1991 an issue of Amstrad Action (May, No. 68 p. 70) published an artillery game type-in program called Warzone. Consisting of 144 lines of code, the author was noted down as one "Richard Shephard down Bristol way".

List of publications[]

  • (1983)[3]
  • (1983)
  • Everest Ascent (1983)
  • (1984)
  • (1983)
  • (1982)
  • (1982)
  • Shaken but not Stirred (1982)
  • (1982)
  • (1985)[4]
  • (1982)
  • (1982)
  • Super Spy (1982)
  • (1982)
  • (1984)
  • Urban Upstart (1983)

References[]

  1. ^ "Ski Star 2000 review". CRASH (14): 120. March 1985. As a software house Richard Shepherd is probably best known for adventure games like Urban Upstart.
  2. ^ "Software News". ZX Computing (8402): 84. February–March 1984.
  3. ^ "Cash Controller at Spectrum Computing - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, software and hardware".
  4. ^ "Your Spectrum 15 - Joystick Jury".

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