Company:Spectral Associates

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Spectral Associates
FateDefunct
Founded1980[1]
FounderThomas Rosenbaum[2]
DefunctLate 1980s[3]
Headquarters3418 South 90th Street, Tacoma, WA 98049[4] and 4633 South 348th Street, Auburn WA 98001[5]
ProductsComputer Games

Spectral Associates was an American maker of computer games for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was founded in 1980 and went defunct sometime in the late 1980s.[3] Spectral Associates sold their software through Radio Shack and via direct sales. It was a very prolific game company for the TRS-80 Color Computer I and II in its heyday.[6]

Software Publications

Computer Games

  • Cave Walker (1986, via Tandy Corporation)[7]
  • Color Meteoroids 1.6 (1981)[8][9]
  • Color Space Invaders 1.4 (1981)[8][9]
  • Color Space War (cassette)
  • Cubix[10]
  • Decathlon[10]
  • Froggie[10]
  • Galagon[10]
  • Ghost Gobbler (cassette/disk)[8]
  • Ice Castles[11]
  • Interbank Incident (1985–1987)[3]
  • Lancer (1983, cassette/disk)[8][9]
  • Lunar Rover 1[10]
  • Lunar Rover Patrol (1983, cassette/disk)[8][9]
  • Keys of the Wizard (cassette)[12]
  • Madness and the Minotaur (1982, cassette)[8]
  • Maze Escape (32K and above, cassette)
  • Module Man[10]
  • Ms. Gobbler (cassette/disk)[8]
  • Pegasus and the Phantom Riders (1985–1987)[3]
  • Pengon (cassette)[8]
  • Piggy (cassette)[8]
  • Planet Invasion (cassette)[8]
  • Qix[10]
  • Realm of Nauga (cassette)[13]
  • Roller Controller[10]
  • Space Sentry (cassette/disk)[8]
  • Springster (1985–1987)[3]
  • Storm Arrows (cassette/disk)[8]
  • Treasury Pack 1 (disk)[8] - these treasuries included (not necessarily an all-inclusive list): Keys of the Wizard, Lunar Rover Patrol, Cubix, Module Man, Qix, Roller Controller, Pengon, Decathlon, Lancer, Froggie, Galagon, and Lunar Rover 1[10]
  • Treasury Pack 2 (disk)[8]
  • Whirlybird Run (1982, cassette/disk)[8][9]

Computer Games (Educational)

  • Alpha Search (educational, cassette/disk)[8]

Applications/Utilities

  • Clone 80cc (cassette)[8]
  • RGB Patch (disk)[14]
  • Demonstration Program (1986, Radio Shack store demo)
  • Holiday Demonstration Program (1986, Radio Shack store demo)

Miscellaneous Publications

July 1980 - June 1981

  • Introduced a 16K upgrade, ($75.00) an editor/assembler, plus several other utilities and one of the first games: SPACE INVADERS. They were also in the process of developing MAGIC BOX which would enable Model I & III tapes to be loaded into the Color Computer.[1]

July 1981 - June 1982

  • Color Computer technical manual (book)[1]

July 1983 - June 1984

  • Color Basic Unravelled II (book)[1][15]
  • Disk Basic Unravelled II (book)[1][15]
  • Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)[1][15]
  • Super Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)[1][15]

Other

  • The Facts for the TRS-80 Color Computer (book, Copyright (c) 1983, First printing: Nov 1981, Fifth Printing: Jul 1983)[4]
  • CoCo 3 Secrets Revealed[8]

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Coco Chronicles". http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/history.html. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  2. ↑ "Madness and the Minotaur - A Mystery Solved". February 6, 2017. http://tleaves.com/post/minotaur-mystery/. "Madness and the Minotaur was written by the founder of Spectral Associates, Tom Rosenbaum." 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 [Coco] Spectral Associates Wikipedia entry
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Dan Connolly Software Releases". http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/support/. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  5. ↑ http://textfiles.tonytee.nl/messages/ALANWESTON/1994/DLPH03_22.txt [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  6. ↑ "Colorout". http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/colorout.html. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  7. ↑ Cave Walker
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 http://coco.clubltdstudios.com/reference/cocopricelist.txt [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "TRS-80 Cassette Software Page". http://discover-net.net/~dmkeil/coco/software/cococass.htm. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 "The CoCo Collector January 2006". http://coco.clubltdstudios.com/reference/cococollector0603.html. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  11. ↑ Kinns, Graham E.. "Dragon Software Directory by Publisher". http://dragon32.info/software/by-pub.html#Spectral+Associates/Microdeal. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  12. ↑ "Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe - Vault - Keys of the Wizard". http://yois.if-legends.org/vault.php?id=935. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  13. ↑ L. Curtis Boyle (2007) http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2007-October/032607.html
  14. ↑ "The Tandy Color Computer SuperSite". http://www.coco3.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=975. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 "Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site: Documentation - Books". http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-mag-books.htm. Retrieved 31 October 2017. 



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