Microdeal

Microdeal were based in St Austell, Cornwall and released a range of low cost games for the Sinclair QL - their range was eventually taken over by Tom Dolezal who trades as Talent+.

All of their software is still available from RWAP Software under license from Talent.

Some of the Microdeal titles were sold in large oversized boxes, although the majority were sold in cassette cases with inlays.

Their software included:

• Aquanaut 471 - an undersea text and graphics adventure
• Crazy Painter - arcade game where you have to paint the whole QL screen
• Cuthbert in Space - a platform based arcade game
• Lands of Havoc - a good graphical adventure
• Flight Simulator - the best known of the flight simulators for the Sinclair QL
• QL Hopper - a frogger arcade game clone
• Stone Raider - a Boulderdash clone.
• The King - a variant of Donkey Kong