ReadySoft

ReadySoft Incorporated was a video game development company founded in 1987, in Toronto, Canada, by Canadian programmer and software engineer David Foster, former co-founder of Digital Solutions Inc. The company was the publisher of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games for home computers during the late 1980s through mid-1990s, picking up the license after the closure of Software Projects.

After working seven years as a senior programmer, from 1977 to 1984, at Richvale Telecommunications Ltd, a.k.a. RTC (a company founded by Peter Smith, a former repair man which transformed its modest TV store into a company with over fifty employees and a seven figure gross), David Foster co-founded Digital Solutions Inc in 1984 with partner Victor Kass (former RTC vice-president), producing primarily productivity software for the Commodore 64 and 128 in addition to some software for the Amiga near the end of the company's life.

In late 1988, ReadySoft acquired the home conversion rights to Dragon's Lair from Don Bluth's Sullivan Bluth Studios, initially publishing a conversion for the Amiga which instantly became a hit and was later ported to several platforms in both disc and compact disc formats. Other related titles designed for 16-bit computers include Space Ace, Dragon's Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp, Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge, and Dragon's Lair III: The Curse of Mordread.

During that time ReadySoft produced other titles that used same aesthetics to Dragon's Lair, such as the action game Guy Spy, and the interactice movie BrainDead 13.

With the rising popularity of compact-disc based games in the home console and computer market, successive port on the new format were able to more closely resemble the arcade games in content and audio-visual fidelity.

In 1996 David Foster sold the company to Malofilm Communications Inc (later Behavior Entertainment Inc), one of Canada's leading integrated entertainment companies of the time and in 1997 founded Digital Leisure Inc, which shortly after acquired the rights to the Dragon's Lair franchise and continues to develop and publish titles on modern platforms today.

External Links

• https://segaretro.org/ReadySoft
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadySoft