Microdeal was a British software company which operated during the 1980s and early 1990s from its base at Truro Road in the town of St Austell, Cornwall.

The 8-bit software market dwindled toward the end of the 1980s and Symes officially announced that Microdeal would no longer publish for the Dragon and Tandy machines on 1 January 1988; from this point they would concentrate on the newer generation of 16-bit computers, the Amiga and Atari ST, with their remaining stock of Dragon and Tandy software to be sold off by a company called Computape.

These conversions were contracted out to a company called Northern Software Consultants where they were handled by lead programmer Chas Robertson.

Microdeal also had a brand called Pocket Money Software, which published simpler games submitted by users at a lower price than the main titles.

), re-boxed and sometimes adapted hardware (such as joysticks) made by other companies[citation needed] and published an occasional semi-informative, semi-promotional magazine called The Cuthbert Chronicle.