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a British software development company in the early 1980s, located in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull Hull], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Humberside North Humberside],
later in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandesburton Brandesburton] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artic_Computing Artic Computing from Wikipedia]</ref>,
set up by '''Richard Turner''' and [[Chris A. Thornton]] in 1980, later joined by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cecil Charles Cecil].
Primary business was developing and selling computer games and development tools for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer home computer] market, starting with the [[Z80]] based [[Sinclair ZX81]], [[ZX Spectrum]], and [[Amstrad CPC]], and the [[6502]] based [[Atari 8-bit]], [[Commodore 64]] and [[BBC Micro]].
For the first six months times were hard – the company made £21. With comparatively heavy spending on advertising, Artic found itself in debt.
