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| Industry | Video games |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Successor | Cyberdreams |
| Headquarters | Bratislava, Slovakia |
Key people | Louis Wittek, founder |
| Products | Towdie, Atomix, Hexagonia |
Number of employees | 10+ |
| Subsidiaries | Bit magazine |
Ultrasoft was a computer game developer and computer game publisher located in Bratislava, Slovakia.[1][2] The company specialised in the development and publishing of games for the ZX Spectrum home computer. With over 40 titles published,[3] its most successful including the platform game Towdie and puzzle games Atomix and Hexagonia – Atomix 2. Ultrasoft also acted as an exclusive distributor within the territory of Czechoslovakia for Domark and Ocean Software[4] game software houses based in the UK. Apart from computer games, the company also published a dozen or so non-game titles, mostly for learning foreign languages, as well as text, image, sound and music editors.
The company was founded by Louis Wittek in 1989, and dissolved in 1998.
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