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Founded | Toronto, Ontario (1978) |
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Defunct | 1987 |
Fate | Purchased by Electronic Arts |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Alan Krofchick Robbie Krofchik Marcie Swartz L. Brian Swartz |
Products | PaperClip DEGAS |
Batteries Included was a computer software and hardware company based in the Toronto area. It developed products for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.[1] The company was best known in the 1980s for its PaperClip word processor, which was available for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64, and the DEGAS bitmap painting program for the Atari ST. Batteries Included was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1987.