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Magic Bytes
Company type
Product brand
Industry
Software development industry Video game industry
Founded
1987
Founder
Thomas Meiertoberens
Key people
Rolf Lakämper, Bettina Wiedner
Website
www.magicbytes.com
Magic Bytes is an international video game publishing label. It originated in Germany as the primary computer game brand of micro-partner Software GmbH, already active since 1986 and dedicated to the internal development of some of the games. Initially, Bertelsmann subsidiary Ariolasoft and Gremlin Graphics in the United Kingdom distributed most Magic Bytes games.[1][2][3][4]
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^"Commodore Magazine, vol. 10, n. 2, West Chester, Commodore Magazine Inc., February 1989, p. 76". February 1989.
^"Drews, Alexander (March–April 2020). "Interview with Thomas Meiertoberens - The return of Magic Bytes". Amiga Future Magazine. 143: 10–14". www.amigafuture.de. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
MagicBytes is an international video game publishing label. It originated in Germany as the primary computer game brand of micro-partner Software GmbH...
verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or MagicBytes. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text. If such...
for bytes containing instructions or constituents of instructions, not for data bytes. Many sources erroneously indicate a birthday of the term byte in...
Verlag. p. 52. Borgmeier, Carsten (May 1991). "MagicBytes - Häppchen aus der Hexenküche" [MagicBytes - Nibbles from the Witch's Kitchen]. Amiga Joker...
noncharacter Unicode code point if its bytes are swapped. Hence, the process accessing the text can examine these first few bytes to determine the endianness, without...
row of each glyph is padded to a whole number of bytes. For example, a 12x12 font would have 2 bytes per row. The letter 'A' in a 12x12 PSF bitmap may...
(constant) in the constant pool is identified by an initial byte tag. The number of bytes following this tag and their interpretation are then dependent...
Graphics) image has a file size of 166 bytes. When converted to a 192×128 PPM image, the file size is 73,848 bytes. Filesize reduction factor 100 or so...
developed by German studio New Generation Software and published by MagicBytes for Windows. It was released on 18 August 1999. The game sees historian...
Ceased publishing in 2010. Aeria Games merged with gamigo in mid-2016. MagicBytes was a 1987 label of former German publisher, micro-partner Software GmbH...
released for Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64 computers in 1989 by MagicBytes. Another game with identical gameplay, Tom & Jerry 2, was also released...
associated with the named stream. It is measured in bytes on UNIX; on some other systems it is a magic cookie, and the only foolproof way to obtain an offset...
Tom & Jerry: Hunting High and Low 1989 Atari ST MagicBytes Tom & Jerry 2 1989 Atari ST MagicBytes Tower FRA 1990 Amiga Thalion Trans World 1990 Atari...
General Magic's founding, with Bill Atkinson as one of the three cofounders, met the following press in Byte magazine: The obstacles to General Magic's success...
to: File magic number: bytes within a file used to identify the format of the file; generally a short sequence of bytes (most are 2-4 bytes long) placed...
packed into bytes which are then packed into blocks of up to 255 bytes. A block of image data begins with a byte that declares the number of bytes to follow...
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