Almathera Systems Ltd

Company Type	Publisher
Founded	1992
Status	Bankrupt March 17, 1997
Head Quarters	United Kingdom

3DO Games

I cannot find any 3DO games related to them. They were on the original "Signed Up Developer List" Published by 3DO. They seemed to purely focus on the Commodore market.

Overview

Almathera Systems Ltd were an Amiga software developer who were in business between 1992 and 1997, developing CD-ROM based software for the CDTV and AmigaCD32, along with multimedia software for the Amiga computer, such as the initial releases of Photogenics, the 24-bit paint program for the Amiga developed originally by Paul Nolan. The rights to this software reverted to Paul Nolan after Almathera went out of business in 1997.

Important software titles developed by Almathera include:

CDPD - Public Domain Collection The Demo CD - 660Mb of Amiga Scene demos CDPD 2/3/4 17-Bit Collection - Public Domain library put onto two CDs (and two further updates) Video Creator - CD32 multimedia title allowing music video creation tricks Emerald Mine and Prey on the CD32 Photogenics 2 - CD-based version of Photogenics paint software. Released 1996 A-Plug In Collection - Photoshop Plug-In filters (for PC), first, and last non-Amiga release from Almathera. Now available for free download from Mysterious Ways.

Bankruptcy

Almathera published this statement:

Almathera Systems Ltd. Going Out of Business March 17, 1997

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Almathera Systems Ltd. has ceased trading.

We have tried to support the Amiga for the last three years since Commodore died, and we were only able to survive this long because of the loyalty and friendship of the Amiga community.

Last year we undertook a major project for VisCorp, for their interactive set-top box system.

Our team dedicated months to developing this project (vui.library, a core component for the new set-top box operating environment), but VisCorp were unable to pay us for the work we completed, and this not inconsiderable debt caused grave cashflow problems that we were not able to recover from.

In the six and a half years that Almathera have been trading we have made many friends amongst the Amiga community and wish everyone that dealt with Almathera at any time during the past all the best for the future.

Jolyon & Paul Ralph - ex. Almathera

However, several years later in an email published to the web, Jolyon stated the following:

From: "Jolyon Ralph" <jolyon@mways.co.uk> Reply-To: GameTeam@phinixi.com Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:51:59 -0000 To: <GameTeam@phinixi.com> Subject: RE: [GameTeam] RE: Game Team on amiga.org thread

Hello All

A quick introduction to those who don't know me...

I'm Jolyon Ralph, I was Technical Director of Almathera Systems, who published stuff for Amiga, CDTV and CD32 between 1992 and 1997. I was involved directly in projects such as Photogenics and Video Creator and I did a lot of work on things you have never seen, or never saw the light of day, such as work with Carl Sassenrath developing the graphics library subsystem for an amiga-based set-top-box that never saw the light of day. We also had a lot of little games and projects in development which would be ideal for this new projects. Noone here except me has ever seen "Katch the Kat". That'll probably be my first port to this box as it was entirely written in C. I hope you'll enjoy it :)

Before that I wrote lots of articles on Amiga 68000 programming and all sorts of other things for magazines such as Amiga Computing, Amiga Format, Amiga Shopper, Amiga User International, etc.

Oh, and a quick word about the rumours about Almathera/Viscorp - a lot of things were said about the demise of Almathera and viscorp's part in it, some attributed to me, which were simply not true. If they were true I wouldn't be so happy to be working with Bill again, and I'm certainly happy to!

Jolyon