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 ====== Arrakis ======
Arrakis were a small software company which produced a couple of games for the Sinclair QL in the early days - their games were published by [[qlwiki:Sinclair Research Ltd]].


The programs were written by Steve Hollywood and Ian B Williams, who were in their teens at the time.  The name Arrakis was from the film Dune which had been released as a film around that time.


The games were:



  *[[qlwiki:Orbit]] (An orbital fighting game with realistic orbital physics)
  *[[qlwiki:QL Jabber]] (A platform game)
  *[[qlwiki:QL Meteor Storm]] (Based on the classic Asteroids Arcade Game)


A further game, Recconaisance, written by Ian Kennedy, Ian Williams and Steven Hollywood was published in the [[https://archive.org/stream/computer-video-games-magazine-052/CVG052_Feb_1986#page/n117/mode/2up|February 1986 issue of Computer and Video Games]]


Steven Hollywood & Ian Williams also wrote a machine code routine to play music on the QL which was published in the [[http://sinclairql.speccy.org/archivo/docs/mags/QLWorld_1986-10.pdf|October 1986 issue of Sinclair QL World]].


Steve also believes that there were a couple of other articles, including, a basic version of something like the Atari missile command and a series of several articles that programmed a space invader type game in 68K assembler. This latter has been confirmed as being Paladin available on [[http://www.dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/games/|the Sinclair QL Homepage]]


Ian Williams and Steven also wrote some articles for another magazine but tended to focus on QL World / QL User.