Their first products were
Pascal and
assembler implementations for the NASCOM 1 and 2 kit-based computers, followed by Pascal and
C for computers, as well as a
BASIC compiler for this platform and a C compiler for
CP/M. While compilers for the 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
operating system, 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 and Power BASIC, HiSoft C Interpreter for the
Amiga,
Atari ST, Aztec C, Personal Pascal, Forth-83 and FTL Modula-2. They also produced WERCS, the WIMP Environment Resource Construction Set. The only game published by HiSoft was ProFlight for Atari ST (1990) and Amiga (1991). ==Background==