Locomotive Software was a small British software house that did most of its development for Amstrad's home and small business computers of the 1980s.
It was founded by Richard Clayton and Chris Hall on 14 February 1983.
A later Locomotive BASIC was BASIC2 for Digital Research's GEM graphical user interface, as supplied with the Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640 range of PC clones.
The company also developed the LocoScript word processor for the PCW, which was a complete bootable environment in its own right with no separate underlying operating system.
[3] The company later produced a PC version of this software, but it was not very successful,[3] partly because it was a DOS application, just as the PC market was moving to Microsoft Windows, but also because the program compared poorly to incumbents like WordPerfect in the more competitive environment of PC word processors.