Summary

Lightsoft is committed to producing excellent software applications and utilities for personal computers for a wide variety of tasks - as diverse as weather monitoring, software development and entertainment. We are primarily a software development house and have been around as Lightsoft since 1994.

Lightsoft is primarily an Internet entity.


Company Aims

Lightsoft has a goal: to write good software that people enjoy to use. We put together a mix of usability, quality, measured quantity (not too much, not too little), technology and a little fun and then add a lot of hard work on our part.

We write a wide variety of software. Hopefully it shows that we both use and care about our software. We certainly enjoy writing and improving it for people around the world.


Company Origins

The core of Lightsoft was born way back in the early 1990's when Amigas and Atari ST's were in vogue. The company was made viable by the advent of cheap, fast (300 baud!) modems and decent BBS's.

The first published program was "DynaRAM" for the Atari ST, which was a tiny OS patch to display the amount of free memory on the desktop.


The People

Lightsoft is currently run by Rob Probin and Stuart Ball - who originally founded it. 

Both are professional software engineers (people who can design and program) who've worked on large and small projects and have evolved to know many high level languages and design techniques.

Rob has been writing computer software almost as far back as he can remember. As well as writing software for most of the personal computers since 1981, he's also programmed multi-user systems (Unix) and done both software and hardware design for embedded systems. Rob has a degree in Engineering and has experience in cross-functional new-product-design management.

Stuart is a graduate of the No 1 Radio School, RAF Locking where he Studied Aeronautical engineering and computing. He then went on to work on various flight, radar and electronic warfare simulators. Stuart is now a senior software engineer working both on personal computer software and embedded devices.

There are also a good number of people who have been part of Lightsoft in the past and are still "honourary members" of the Lightsoft team. Some of their work is on the web site. In addition there have been many good people - it is unfair to call them users - who have supported us over the years. Although they are not named here, their efforts are appreciated. You will also find some of their work on the web site.


The Lightsoft Team

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