HiSoft

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Hisoft Systems was a software company based in the UK, creators of a range of programming tools for microcomputers in 1980s and 1990s. Their first products were Pascal and C implementation for ZX Spectrum computers, as well as BASIC compiler for this platform and C compiler for CP/M. While compilers for Spectrum were typical products for this platform, with integrated editor, compiler and runtime environment fitting in RAM together with program's source, the C compiler for CP/M was typical for this OS, batch operated, with separate compilation and linking stages.

Their most well-known products were the Devpac assembler IDE environments (earlier known as GenST and GenAm for the Atari ST and Amiga, respectively). The Devpac IDE was a full editor/assembler/debugger environment written entirely in 68k assembler and was a favourite tool among programmers on the Atari GEM platform.

HiSoft also sold HiSoft BASIC, Aztec C, Personal Pascal and FTL Modula-2.

The company today appears to be in a state of limbo, as their main page gives very little information.