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DYNAMIC DATA
TECHNOLOGY

TECHNICAL DATA

NAME:Dynamic Data Technology Ltd.
ORIGIN:London / Swindon, England (UK)
FOUNDED:c. 1987
STATUS:Historical (Inactive / Dissolved)
SPECIALITY:Storage Interfaces, Utility Software, and Data Conversion
OFFICIAL WEB:Does not exist
Description

Dynamic Data Technology Ltd. was a prestigious British software and systems engineering firm targeted at the professional Amstrad PCW market during the peak of CP/M systems. At a historical crossroads where the corporate and industrial ecosystem suffered from a profound compatibility gap due to Amstrad's use of native 3" floppy disks and proprietary file structures, Dynamic Data became a pioneering development house by designing both the electronic connection hardware and the low-level sector conversion software needed to communicate PCW units with MS-DOS-driven IBM PC-compatible storage environments.

Developed Hardware
Intergem Disk Drive Interface A proprietary hardware interface module designed by Dynamic Data. It attached directly onto the rear expansion bus of the Amstrad PCW and provided the necessary electronic circuitry and signal paths to connect and control standard, non-native external disk drives (such as double-density 3.5-inch floppy drives or 5.25-inch units), drastically expanding the computer's physical storage layout.
Support Software & Integration

The company focused its software preservation catalogue on breaking the strict barriers that Locomotive Software and Amsoft had originally hardcoded into the BIOS of the PCW 8256, 8512, and 9000 series models:

  • PC-Disc (Sector-Level Conversion Utility): The firm's flagship tool, engineered to work in absolute symbiosis with the Intergem hardware interface. It enabled secondary PCW drives to directly read, write, and format floppy disks with MS-DOS sector track structures. This facilitated immediate text and file sharing between offices without requiring expensive serial transfer cables like LapLink.
  • LocoScript-to-PC Transporters: Conversion modules that interpreted typographical formatting codes (bold text, underlines, added fonts) embedded within LocoScript `.DEF` files and cleanly exported them into universal formats readable by early PC word processors like WordStar or WordPerfect.
  • Dynamic Data Utilities for CP/M: Command suites optimized for flat file and dBase II database management within the PCW operating system, drastically accelerating data index routines in the internal RAM.
Known Addresses (England, UK)
Historical Technical Office and Commercial Support Elta House, 175 Cricklade Road, Swindon, Wiltshire (England) Original verified mail order contact: Telephone (0793) 619229 Alternative administrative corporate headquarters: London, UK