Datamost

American video game publisher

Datamost

At the 1982 West Coast Computer Faire
Industry	Computer books Video games
Founded	1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Founder	David Gordon
Headquarters	Chatsworth, California

Datamost was a computer book publisher and computer game company founded by David Gordon and based in Chatsworth, California. Datamost operated in the early 1980s producing games and other software mainly for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers, with some for the IBM PC. It also published educational and reference materials related to home computers and computer programming.

Video games

1981

County Carnival
Thief

1982

Aztec
The Bilestoad
Casino
Guardian
Mars Cars
The Missing Ring
Money Munchers
Snack Attack
Space Strike
Spectre
Swashbuckler
Tharolian Tunnels
Tubeway
WizPlus

1983

Ardy the Aardvark
Argos by Ron Lowrance
Cavern Creatures
Cohen's Towers
Conquering Worlds
Cosmic Tunnels
Mating Zone
Monster Smash
Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory
Neon
Nightraiders
Pandora's Box
Round About^[1]
Space Ark
Space Cadette
Super Bunny
The Tail of Beta Lyrae

1984

Ankh by David Van Brink
Earthly Delights
Jet-Boot Jack
Mabel's Mansion
My Chess II
Polar Pierre

Publications

How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language (1981) Using 6502 Assembly Language by Randy Hyde | PDF by Randy Hyde
The Elementary Commodore-64 (1982) by William B. Sanders, Ph.D.
How to Write an Apple Program (1982) by Ed Faulk
Designing Apple Games with Pizazz (1983) by Greg Minter and John Ruffner
p-Source (A Guide to the Apple Pascal System) (1983) by Randall Hyde
Games Apples Play (1983) by Mark James Capella and Michael D. Weinstock
Games Ataris Play (1983) by Hal Glicksman and Kent Simon^[2]
Games Commodores Play (1983) by Phil Dennis and Greg Minter
The Elementary Apple (1983) by William B. Sanders
The Commodore 64 Experience (1983) by Mike Dean Klein^[3]
The Atari Experience by Adrien Z. Lamothe (1984)
Atari Roots (1984) by Mark Andrews^[4]
The Musical Atari (1984) by Hal Glickman
The Apple Almanac (1984) by Eric Goez and William Sanders
Apple Macintosh Primer (1984) by William Sanders
Inside Commodore DOS (1984, 1985) by Richard Immers and Gerald G. Neufeld
The Super Computer Snooper (1984) by Isaac Malitz

References

^ "Marketalk Reviews". Softalk. Vol. 4, no. 1. September 1983. p. 192. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ Glicksman, Hal; Simon, Kent (1983). Games Ataris Play (PDF). Datamost. ISBN 9780881901184.
^ Published by Datamost ISBN 0-88190-230-6
^ Andrews, Mark (1984). Atari Roots. Chastsworth, CA: Datamost. ISBN 0-88190-171-7.