Bandersnatch

Bandersnatch is one of the few mysteries which surround Sinclair QL software and remains something of a legend.

It was originally designed by Imagine (Name of the Game) and was being written at around the time of the collapse of this company.

Bandersnatch was to be the first of a series of megagames produced by Imagine, which were designed to push the boundaries of the hardware of the time, even to the extent that they were intended to be released for the ZX Spectrum, with a hardware add-on which would have increased the capabilities of the computer.

A new company called Finchspeed was set-up after Imagine folded which then sold the rights to the game to Sinclair Research Ltd, who were insistent that it should work on the QL from microdrives without extra hardware. It is rumoured that a complete working version was then developed for the Sinclair QL before Finchspeed (or was it called Fireiron?) too folded.

The directors of Finchspeed, Dave Lawson and Ian Heatherington then went on to form Psygnosis and the game was later released for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST as Brataccas.

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We wonder whatever happened to the QL sources...

Title: Bandersnatch
Language: Unknown
Author: John Gibson and Ian Weatherburn
Publisher: Sinclair Research Limited
Year of Publication: Unpublished
Platforms Suitable for: Unknown
Commercial Status: Unknown
Reviews: Unknown
Price as at July 1984: Unknown
Sources Available from: Unknown
Latest Version available from: Unknown