Ultrasoft was a computer game developer and computer game publisher located in Bratislava, Slovakia. The company specialised in the development and publishing of games for the ZX Spectrum home computer. With over 40 titles published, 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 Ocean Software game software house 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.
Published games
Other published titles
Baby Mantrik (English for children) Datalog 2 (Database) DTP Machine Utility (DTP editor) DTP Machine Professional Pack (Image/Text/DTP editor) Mantrik Anglicky (Learning English) Mantrik Nemecky (Learning German) Mantrik Editor – Professor (Create your own lessons for Mantrik) Mrs08E (ZX Spectrum Assembler editor) ScreenMachine (Image editor) SoundTracker (Music editor) TextMachine (Text editor) Tuition (Sinclair BASIC for beginners) ZX-7 (Music & Sound editor)
Bit magazine
Between 1991–1994 Ultrasoft also published a specialised monthly magazine Bit, aimed at owners of home computers and dealing with computer games in particular.