ICE Software was a collective of freelance

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s from Glasgow, Scotland. It produced many successful

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and

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conversions of late 1980s and early 1990s

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s. Some major titles delivered were ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Hydra''. ICE Software was based in a back-office at 244 Bath Street, Glasgow G1, and founded by Ian Morrison (the teenage developer of many popular titles such as '' Beach-Head'' with Platinum Productions), David Anderson and Martin Kane. It stopped trading in the mid-1990s.

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