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Video game company active from 1980 to 1985
Bug-Byte Ltd. was a video game company founded in 1980 in Liverpool, initially producing software for the Acorn Atom and ZX80. Bug-Byte's first hit was
Bug-Byte
Unicode character
The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number
Byte_order_mark
1983 video game
game written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith. It was published by Bug-Byte in 1983, then later the same year by Software Projects. The first game
Manic_Miner
needed] Datamost, Apple II, Atari 8-bit The Birds and the Bees II: Antics, Bug-Byte, C64, ZX Spectrum Abracadabra!, TG Software, Atari 8-bit Bewitched, Imagine
List_of_maze_video_games
Bug in the Intel P5 Pentium floating-point unit
significant deviations. The severity of the FDIV bug is debated. Though rarely encountered by most users (Byte magazine estimated that 1 in 9 billion floating
Pentium_FDIV_bug
Japanese media franchise
Wonder-Promin defeated Don Bugdez who was in his monstrous form. The Bug Bytes (バグバイツ, Bagu Baitsu) is a group of "hackers" who serve their lord Don
Kamiwaza_Wanda
Acorn Computers home computer, 1980–1982
Block Zero RAM (including the 256 bytes of "zero page") and 512 bytes for the screen (text mode) and only 512 bytes for programs (presumably in text mode
Acorn_Atom
Group) (defunct) Blitz Games Studios (defunct) Volatile Games (defunct) Bug-Byte Software Ltd. (defunct) Bullfrog Productions (defunct) CDS Software (defunct)
List of game companies in the United Kingdom
List_of_game_companies_in_the_United_Kingdom
Topics referred to by the same term
popular in the 1930s and 1940s Zoot, a game on the MSX platform, released by Bug Byte software in 1986 Zoot, a slang term for a cannabis cigarette[citation needed]
Zoot
Design flaw in 1993-1997 Intel processors
instruction. More formally, the bug is called the invalid operand with locked CMPXCHG8B instruction bug. In the x86 architecture, the byte sequence F0 0F C7 C8 represents
Pentium_F00F_bug
Former British video game developer
Smith, Alan Maton and Liverpool businessman Tommy Barton. After leaving Bug-Byte as a freelance developer, Smith was able to take the rights to his recently
Software_Projects
1982 video game
maze video game developed by Don Priestley and published for the ZX81 by Bug-Byte in 1982. It was subsequently licensed by Softsync and published in the
Mazogs
British video game programmer
wrote Monster Muncher in 3 hours. He obtained a ZX Spectrum on loan from Bug-Byte Software Ltd. in return for a freelance contract for three games. The first
Matthew Smith (games programmer)
Matthew_Smith_(games_programmer)
1984 video game
TYMAC for the Commodore 64 in 1984, with a ZX Spectrum version released by Bug-Byte Software in 1986. In Flyer Fox, the player controls a fighter jet escorting
Flyer_Fox
1988 ERE Informatique Captain Dynamo 1993 Codemasters Captain Kidd 1985 Bug-Byte Captain Planet and the Planeteers 1991 Mindscape Software Carlos Sainz
List_of_Amstrad_CPC_games
Screenplay Pirates In Space 1982 Bug-Byte Pirate's Peril 1986 Heyley Software Plan B 1987 Bug-Byte Plan B2 1987 Bug-Byte Plane Crash 1988 Labyrinth Planes
List_of_Acorn_Electron_games
1983 video game
Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and ZX Spectrum. It was released in 1983 by Bug-Byte. Twin Kingdom Valley is a work of interactive fiction where the player
Twin_Kingdom_Valley
International Advanced Budget Manager 1982 Softsync Inc Adventure 1982 Bug-Byte Software Ltd Adventure A 1981 Artic Computing Ltd Adventure B: Inca Treasure
List_of_ZX81_games
1979 video game
synthesis. A poorly implemented Asteroids clone for the VIC-20, published by Bug-Byte, motivated Jeff Minter to found Llamasoft. The Intellivision game Meteor
Asteroids_(video_game)
1974 video game
been released under the name Star Trader. One such game was released by Bug Byte Software in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, and was one of the
Star_Trader
1987 video game
made for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers and released by Bug-Byte in 1987. It is essentially a clone of the popular video game Gauntlet where
Dunjunz
British video game programmer
His first commercial game was The Damsel and the Beast, published by Bug-Byte, and inspired by a program called Mugwump. Further ZX81 games written freelance
Don_Priestley
Topics referred to by the same term
German film Styx (Spectrum video game), a 1983 computer game released by Bug-Byte Software Styx (Windmill game), a 1983 computer game released by Windmill
Styx_(disambiguation)
The Bug-Byte Adrian Sherwin, Andrew Peckham 1983 Cavern Fighter Bug-Byte John K. Jameson 1983 Manic Miner Bug-Byte Matthew Smith 1983 Styx Bug-Byte Matthew
List_of_ZX_Spectrum_games
Manic Miner, developed and released by Matthew Smith in 1983, sold by Bug-Byte, one of the first publishers in this market. While a loose clone of the
Video games in the United Kingdom
Video_games_in_the_United_Kingdom
British software development company
inspired by the success of Liverpool-based software houses Imagine Software, Bug-Byte and Software Projects. Their initial catalogue was based around clones
Ocean_Software
1980 video game
game's development team included Kazutoshi Ueda, who later designed Lady Bug (1981) and Mr. Do! (1982) at Universal and then Bomb Jack (1984) and Tehkan
Space_Panic
1984 video game
game released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum, and in 1986 for the MSX by Bug-Byte. The player takes control of Mechanic Mick who has been employed by a rich
Turmoil_(1984_video_game)
1986 video game
a maze video game for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 16, published by Bug-Byte in 1986. Aardvark is based on 1982 arcade game Anteater and 1983 Atari
Aardvark_(video_game)
American rock band
which later went platinum. In spring of 2002, the band contributed "Bug Bytes" to the first Spider-Man soundtrack. In May 2002, the band was involved
Alien_Ant_Farm
1983 video game
Styx is a shoot 'em up maze video game published by Bug-Byte Software in 1983. It was the first ZX Spectrum game written by Matthew Smith, and the first
Styx_(Spectrum_video_game)
1986 Software Country Chicken 1982 Synapse Software Chicken Chase 1986 Bug-Byte Chicken Out 1983 ALA Software Chiffres et des Lettres (Des) 1984 Atari
List of Atari 8-bit computer games
List_of_Atari_8-bit_computer_games
Bug in Microsoft Windows
"ANSI". This prepends a UTF-8 byte order mark which avoids the bug. UTF-8 without the byte order mark would still trigger the bug, as it is identical to the
Bush_hid_the_facts
British video games developer
late 1980s. Imagine Software was founded in 1982 by former members of Bug-Byte Mark Butler and David Lawson. Butler and programmer Eugene Evans had previously
Imagine_Software
Computer software bug occurring in 2038
addressed. Some applications that use future dates have already encountered the bug. The most vulnerable systems are those which are infrequently or never updated
Year_2038_problem
1986 video game
the Ice Castle is a platform game developed by Taskset and published by Bug-Byte in 1986 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It is based on Rupert Bear
Rupert_and_the_Ice_Castle
ASCII-compatible variable-width encoding of Unicode
four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using fewer bytes. It was designed
UTF-8
Zainsoft Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1985 Adventure Y Y Y Y Bug-Byte Software Bug-Byte Software / Mind Games España Ju・star (aka ジャスター) 1990 Multi-directional
List_of_MSX_games
Method used for display options on video text terminals
options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting with an ASCII escape character and a bracket character, are
ANSI_escape_code
1982–1983. Pole Position wins Coin-Op Game of the Year, Ms. Pac-Man and Lady Bug win console Videogames of the Year, Lode Runner wins Computer Game of the
1984_in_video_games
1983 video game
under the Starcade label and was reissued in 1985 when Argus acquired the Bug-Byte budget label. The game is set in a pond with the player taking the role
Savage_Pond
Video game series
remakes, homages and updates have been released. Manic Miner (1983), Bug-Byte / Software Projects Jet Set Willy (1984), Software Projects The Perils
Miner_Willy
1983 Romik Annihilator 1982 Victory Software Another Vic in the Wall 1982 Bug-Byte Ant Eater 1983 Romox Ant Raiders 1982 P.R. Software Anti-matter ALA Software
List_of_VIC-20_games
winning the overall Game of the Year award. New companies: Broderbund, Bug-Byte, HAL Laboratory, Human Engineered Software, Mindscape, On-Line Systems
1980_in_video_games
1980 video game
Rally-X, which was released in Europe by Argus Press Software under the Bug-Byte name. Dempa Shinbun developed versions for the Fujitsu FM-7, MZ-1500, and
Rally-X
Numeric value with an unclear meaning
followed by 42 as a two-byte integer in little or big endian byte ordering. "II" is for Intel, which uses little endian byte ordering, so the magic number
Magic_number_(programming)
Titus, Tradewest, Westwood Studios Defunct: Adventure International, Bug-Byte, Edu-Ware, RDI Video Systems David Mullich and several other laid-off employees
1985_in_video_games
Griffin's Story defunct 2008 Broccoli Tokyo, Japan 1994 First Kiss Story II Bug-Byte Liverpool, United Kingdom 1980 Manic Miner Bubble Bus Software Tonbridge
List_of_video_game_publishers
the user's manual). Synthetic programming uses a bug in the calculator firmware to enter those byte sequences as a sequence of other instructions, then
Synthetic_programming_(HP-41)
1987 video game
Grange Hill is a 1987 video game published by Argus Press Software for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC. It is based on Grange Hill, a popular
Grange_Hill_(video_game)
Computer arithmetic error
bug. The New York State Gaming Commission ruled in favor of the casino. In Super Mario Bros. for the NES, the stored number of lives is a signed byte
Integer_overflow
English video game composer (born 1957)
Lemmings. Working titles: Coppercon1, Draconia Miami Dice 1986 Commodore 64 Bug-Byte Milk Race 1987 Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC Mastertronic Arranged
David Whittaker (video game composer)
David_Whittaker_(video_game_composer)
computer systems of the time. It acquired Quicksilva and Starcade in 1984, Bug-Byte in 1985, and also published titles by the wargame company MC Lothlorien
Argus_Press
development which improves the game even further with new features, original bug fixes, raised game limits and much more! [...] Development started on April
List of commercial video games with available source code
List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code
Computer security vulnerability (2026)
for bug reports) is permitted to create AF_ALG sockets. Knop, Dirk (30 April 2026). ""Copy Fail": Linux root in all major distributions with 732 bytes of
Copy_Fail
Construction Set, Archon: The Light and the Dark, M.U.L.E., and Worms?. Bug-Byte releases Matthew Smith's Manic Miner, a platform game, for the ZX Spectrum
1983_in_video_games
Password-based key derivation function
array of Bytes (16 bytes) random salt password: array of Bytes (1..72 bytes) UTF-8 encoded password Output: hash: array of Bytes (24 bytes) //Initialize
Bcrypt
British company
1, 2019 Jack the Ripper CRL Group 1987 October 15, 2019 Jet Set Willy Bug-Byte Software 1984 December 24, 2025 Jock and the Time Rings Atlantis Software
Antstream
Logical error that can often be found in programming
write a terminating null character one byte beyond the maximum length specified. The following code contains such a bug: void foo (char *s) { char buf[15];
Off-by-one_error
Superfamily of insects
PMC 3493603. PMID 23144967. Boggs, Joe (14 June 2016). "Planthoppers". Bug Bytes. Ohio State University Extension. Retrieved 29 January 2021. Dietrich
Planthopper
1983 video game
II: Antics Developers Adrian Sherwin Tim Lewis Andrew Peckham Publisher Bug-Byte Platforms Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum Release 1983 Genres Maze Mode Single-player
The Birds and the Bees II: Antics
The_Birds_and_the_Bees_II:_Antics
2002 soundtrack album by various artists
5. "Somebody Else" (Bleu) Bleu Peter Moore John Fields Bleu 3:38 6. "Bug Bytes" (Alien Ant Farm) Alien Ant Farm James Murray Alien Ant Farm 3:32 7. "Blind"
Spider-Man_(soundtrack)
Topics referred to by the same term
Decepticon originally based on Jetfire. Spacewarp, a software product by Bug-Byte. Space Warp, an ASCII game loosely based on Star Trek. "Spacewarp", a 2015
Spacewarp
American model and actress
Retrieved January 19, 2020. Johnson, Richard (May 10, 1992). "The love bug bytes Ed Begley Jr". Daily News. p. 766. Retrieved January 19, 2020. Benza,
Amy_Lynn_Baxter
Alleged mine in Southwestern United States
Teri (December 1980). "Lost Dutchman's Mine". BYTE. Retrieved October 18, 2013. "Adventurous Bugs". BYTE. April 1984. p. 302. Retrieved October 18, 2013
Lost_Dutchman's_Gold_Mine
Personal computer sold in Britain
budget publishers, and other "strong contenders" being Godax, Mandarin and Bug Byte, this assessment made from the perspective of an established games author
Acorn_Electron
2003 single by Alien Ant Farm
2004. This CD contains the album version of "Glow", live versions of "Bug Bytes" and "Never Meant", and the song's music video. On June 28, the single
Glow_(Alien_Ant_Farm_song)
Windows character set for Japanese
extended double-byte codes in their code page 943 (IBM-943 or CP943), which is a combination of the single-byte Code page 897 and the double-byte Code page
Code page 932 (Microsoft Windows)
Code_page_932_(Microsoft_Windows)
R-Type – Electric Dreams Software Chuckie Egg: A'n'F Software Manic Miner: Bug-Byte Software Ltd Knight Lore: Ultimate Play the Game Back to Skool: Microsphere
ZX_Spectrum_software
Security bug in OpenSSL
Heartbleed is a security bug in some outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptography library, which is a widely used implementation of the Transport Layer
Heartbleed
American journalist (born 1977)
Technology". yjolt.org. Retrieved July 6, 2021. CNAS 2013 Annual Conference: Bugs, Bytes and Bots, retrieved January 18, 2020 "Noah Shachtman". Brookings. Retrieved
Noah_Shachtman
8-bit microprocessor from 1975
include implied (1-byte instructions); absolute (3 bytes); indexed absolute (3 bytes); indexed zero-page (2 bytes); relative (2 bytes); accumulator (1);
MOS_Technology_6502
1983 video game
Priestley, was based on his earlier ZX81 game Mazogs which was published by Bug-Byte in 1982. Mazogs was one of the most successful ZX81 games so Don Priestley
Maziacs
1979 video game
1980). "Pirate's Adventure". BYTE. p. 192. Retrieved 18 October 2013. "Scott Adams Classic Adventures". "Adventurous Bugs". BYTE. April 1981. p. 302. Retrieved
Pirate_Adventure
Computer machine code instruction
HALT (or, for a multi-byte instruction, doubling the first byte and separating off the original last byte into a new single-byte instruction); if the instruction
Halt and Catch Fire (computing)
Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing)
American video game publisher
Adventure". BYTE. Vol. 5, no. 12. p. 192. Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2013. "Adventurous Bugs". BYTE. Vol. 6, no
Adventure_International
DOS computer virus and malware
identical to the most common 1704-byte variant; however, one byte has been changed, possibly due to a random mutation, causing a bug in the virus. Another mutated
Cascade_(computer_virus)
Variable-width encoding of Unicode, using one or two 16-bit code units
an earlier obsolete fixed-width 16-bit encoding now known as UCS-2 (for 2-byte Universal Character Set), once it became clear that more than 216 (65,536)
UTF-16
Class of software bugs
In computer science, data type limitations and software bugs can cause errors in time and date calculation or display. These are most commonly manifestations
Time formatting and storage bugs
Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 32 printable characters
considered a modified (stateful) base32 code. Base32 is often used to represent byte strings. The October 2006 proposed Internet standard RFC 4648 documents base16
Base32
Computer hardware device
bytes of data and transmits the individual bits in a sequential fashion. At the destination, a second UART re-assembles the bits into complete bytes.
Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter
Universal_asynchronous_receiver-transmitter
Fixing defects in an engineered system
the process of finding the root cause, workarounds, and possible fixes for bugs. For software, debugging tactics can involve interactive debugging, control
Debugging
Software anomaly
null byte character. A twelve-character input thus requires thirteen bytes to store, the input followed by the sentinel zero byte. The zero byte then
Stack_buffer_overflow
CMOS microprocessor in the 6502 family
a bug, appears when the vector address ends in $FF, which is the boundary of a memory page. In this case, JMP will fetch the most significant byte of
WDC_65C02
Configuration file for computer networking
23 April 2023. "Bug 1492938 - Proxy autoconfig scripts should be loaded as UTF-8 if they are valid UTF-8, otherwise as Latin-1 (a byte is a code point)"
Proxy_auto-config
8-bit microprocessor first shipped in 1975
Output the string CR, LF, Null; Output 1 ASCII byte; Input 1 ASCII byte from a Parallel Input Device. FAIR-BUG is essentially a random-access management routine
Fairchild_F8
List of versions of the Java programming language
Allocation for G1 JEP 349: JFR Event Streaming JEP 352: Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers JEP 358: Helpful NullPointerExceptions JEP 359: Records (Preview)
Java_version_history
1982 video game
and Amiga in 1991 and 1992, respectively. Other clones of Anteater are Bug-Byte’s Aardvark (1986), Jack the Digger (1986) for the Atari 8-bit computers
Anteater_(video_game)
Means of improving the efficiency of TCP/IP networks
only 1 byte in size. Since TCP packets have a 40-byte header (20 bytes for TCP, 20 bytes for IPv4), this results in a 41-byte packet for 1 byte of useful
Nagle's_algorithm
Indoor positioning system
up by a compatible app or operating system. The identifier and several bytes sent with it can be used to determine the device's physical location, track
IBeacon
Byte. Byte is able to interface with technology, while Bug is able to transform into living electricity. During the "Infinite Crisis" storyline, Bug and
List of DC Comics characters: B
List_of_DC_Comics_characters:_B
128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems
field is in a variable number of the most-significant bits of the ninth byte. It indicates the format of the UUID. The following variants are defined:
Universally_unique_identifier
"Pirate's Adventure". BYTE. p. 192. Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2013. "Adventurous Bugs". BYTE. April 1981. p. 302
List of commercial video games with later released source code
List_of_commercial_video_games_with_later_released_source_code
Computer network protocol
example request above. import base64 import hashlib KEY: bytes = b"dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==" MAGIC: bytes = b"258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11" print(base64
WebSocket
Automated software testing technique
exactly is causing the bug. Given the failure-inducing input, an automated minimization tool would remove as many input bytes as possible while still
Fuzzing
First sector of partitioned PC computer disk
partitioned disk to 2 TiB (232 × 512 bytes). Approaches to slightly raise this limit utilizing 32-bit arithmetic or 4096-byte sectors are not officially supported
Master_boot_record
Security for the Java platform and its applications
setMemory(Object o, long offset, long bytes, byte value), void setMemory(long address, long bytes, byte value): sets all bytes in a block of memory to a fixed
Security of the Java software platform
Security_of_the_Java_software_platform
Discontinued C IDE and compiler
C++ compilers as freeware. BYTE in January 1989 listed Turbo C and Turbo Pascal as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards. Citing their user
Turbo_C
Microcode in x86 Intel processors
the result of the CPUID instruction. The structure is a 48-byte header, followed by 2,000 bytes intended to be read directly by the processor to be updated:
Intel_microcode
Instructions for the x86 microprocessors
Vector Byte Manipulation Instructions 2 (VBMI2) – byte/word load, store and concatenation with shift. AVX-512 Bit Algorithms (BITALG) – byte/word bit
Advanced_Vector_Extensions
BUG BYTE
BUG BYTE
Boy/Male
Biblical
Despised; plundered.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps an occupational name for a baker of buns or a nickname for a short, round individual.Cambodian : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : see Bigg.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for an uncouth or weird man, from Middle English bugge ‘hobgoblin’, ‘scarecrow’ (perhaps from Welsh bwg ‘ghost’). Compare Bogle 1.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Buwz, BUZ means "contempt." In the bible, this is the name of a son of Nachor.
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Raud.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Age
Boy/Male
Welsh
light'.
Boy/Male
Indian
Noble, Prince
Boy/Male
Muslim
Noble, Prince
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
One of the Vedas
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Honorific Title i.e. Lord or Master
Male
English
Short form of English Buddy, BUD means "companion."
Boy/Male
English American
Derived from bud, a colloquial term of address used in the United States; short for buddy,...
Boy/Male
British, English, German
Mountain
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Huck.German and Dutch : from the personal name Hug or Hugo, equivalent of English Hugh.
Boy/Male
Biblical
Old age; perishing.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Telugu
Time; Age; Generation
Boy/Male
Australian
Meet Together
Boy/Male
Arabic, Biblical, Christian
Ice Cream; Despised; Plundered; Contempt
BUG BYTE
BUG BYTE
Girl/Female
Muslim
Relation, Way, Sake
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Satisfaction
Boy/Male
Celtic American Latin Irish English
Healer.
Male
Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of Latin Valentinus, VALAN means "healthy, strong."
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, English
Stony Meadow; From the Stony Village
Girl/Female
Australian
Sweet Fairy
Girl/Female
Indian
Stability
Girl/Female
Indian
Child, An ever year old girl, A young girl
Boy/Male
Hindu
Constisting of extended troops
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Engrossed
BUG BYTE
BUG BYTE
BUG BYTE
BUG BYTE
BUG BYTE
n.
A pug mill.
n.
One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
v. t.
To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
v. t.
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
n.
The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.
n.
One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
n.
An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
n.
That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
superl.
Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
v. t.
To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
v. t.
To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
n.
A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
n.
A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
v. t.
To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.
n.
A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
v. t.
To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
v. t.
The thicker end of anything. See But.
v. i.
To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.