Editing Telecomsoft (section)

===Acquisitions===

====Beyond Software====
One of Telecomsoft's earliest acquisitions was [[Beyond Software]]. Originally set up by the [[EMAP]] publishing group in 1983, Beyond published numerous titles on the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and [[Amstrad CPC]], but met with very little success until the release of [[Mike Singleton|Mike Singleton's]] ''[[Lords of Midnight]]'' in 1984. The [[Tolkien]]-esque strategy game, and allowed Beyond to establish a distribution deal with American developers [[First Star]], as well as a publishing deal with developer [[Denton Designs]].

After being acquired by Telecomsoft in late 1985<ref name="birds-beyond">Richard Hewison: [http://www.birdsanctuary.co.uk/sanct/s_beyond.php Beyond.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525032205/http://www.birdsanctuary.co.uk/sanct/s_beyond.php |date=2011-05-25 }} from: ''The Bird Sanctuary.'' Accessed on 2009-12-10</ref> for a six figure sum, Beyond continued to operate as a unique label, mostly releasing games that had already been in development for some time,<ref name='pcw171085'>{{cite magazine |title=Beyond answers Telecom's call|magazine=Popular Computing Weekly |volume=4|issue=42 |publisher=Sunshine Publications |date=17 October 1985|page=1|url=https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=2879&page=1|access-date=25 April 2020}}</ref>  as well as a number of conversions of existing titles. Telecomsoft did very little with the Beyond label beyond these releases. A number of other titles, such as ''[[Star Trek: The Rebel Universe]]'', were released on the Firebird label.

====Odin Computer Graphics====
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