One day someone will write a bestseller about the comings and goings of the Liverpool micro industry.
To be followed, of course, by the film and the TV series.
To give you a glimpse of the saga's complexity, here is a resume of last week's episode.
Fuller Designs, the "we will take your money but can't say where you will get the Spectrum keyboard" company (issues 34, 48, 55, 59) has called in a receiver and invited disgruntled creditors to a meeting.
Fuller used to use Studio Sting, the now defunct advertising and publicity operation run from within the more recently defunct Imagine Software (issues 69, 70, 74).
Another client of Studio Sting was Voyager Software, a company set up by Roy and Beryl Butler (parents of Mark Butler, an Imagine director) which earlier this year took over the business of Acme Software set up by Mr. & Mrs. Butler, with Bruce Everiss (Imagine director until a few days before it crashed) as one of its directors.
Tim Best, former spokesman for Imagine, phoned to say he has now joined Voyager along with some of Imagine's programmers and some exciting new products are on the way.
By the way, he mentions that Heather Lamont (director of the now defunct Rabbit Software - see issues 69 and 70 - and friend of Mark Butler) has also joined to "do publicity and that kind of thing."
Meanwhile back at Imagine, Christopher Chambers, the liquidator appointed by Imagine's numerous creditors, says that negotiations are still proceeding for the sale of the defunct company's much-vaunted megagames. "They are before their time," he says.
1st September 1984
