Eidersoft

Eidersoft were a company based in Ockenden, Essex run by Ken Browning, and released quite a lot of games for the Sinclair QL in the mid 1980s and were also notable for being the first company to offer a desktop for launching QL programs (ICE).

The programs they published are:

• Archiver (Invoicing, mailing, stock control and appointments programs to run within Psion Archive)
• ArtICE (An icon controlled drawing package for use with ICE)
• BJ Returns (The platform game sequel to QL Cavern)
• BJ in 3D Land (The platform game sequel to BJ Returns)
• CHOice - (multitasking software for use with ICE)
• Citadel (Fly around multi-screen cities to collect symbols to reunite East and West)
• Drawing OffICE (An icon controlled 3D image drawing program for use with ICE)
• Eagle (A scramble clone)
• ICE (An icon controlled front end for the QL, available with or without Mouse)
• ICE Toolkit (A toolkit to enable your own programs to communicate with the ICE pointer environment)
• ICICLE (A utility to allow you to add new icons for your own programs to ICE)
• Karate (A good arcade implementation of the classic fighting game)
• Mouseart (An icon controlled drawing package for use with ICE and the mouse)
• Publishing OffICE (An icon controlled desk-top publishing program for use with ICE)
• QDUMPS (Machine code screen dump)
• QLART (A drawing program and character designer)
• QSPELL (A spelling checker for Quill)
• Spook (A pacman clone)
• Zapper (A space invaders type shoot em up)

Unfortunately, although we have now traced the copyright holders for Eidersoft software, after some initial emails, they stopped responding which is a real shame.