Who is Aspex Software?
Aspex Software was founded in 1994 with the release of the Spex educational software program for schools and the program became popular very quickly. Spex quickly established itself in a software hungry education market in both UK and in North America.

Spex is still a best seller and more recently the main program and all the extra environments have been collected together into one program and called SpexClassic:

The simple and imaginitive design of our software has resulted in Spex being used today in education and is more popular than ever.

Briefly, Spex is used by children to design rooms and other places. They drag items of pre-made furniture into a room and view it in the bird's eye view and in a 3D view; budgets, graphs etc are included in the software.

Buyers of the Spex shouldn't expect to see an all singing all dancing software program with flashing lights and shoot'em'up. In contrast a main reason for the popularity of Spex has been its simple and modest style, which means that a teacher can put Spex in front of a whole class of pupils and they all know how to use it! This has been one of the many benefits of the software in schools. Teachers love Spex and the children love Spex too!

Spex was first published for Acorn Computers which were very popular until around the mid 1990's when the share of Acorn computers in schools started to diminish in favour of PC's which had become the mainstream in business.

The rapid conversion of Spex to work on PC's secured the continuity of its use in schools as they ramped up the expansion of IT in their classrooms. Spex thrived on the PC in schools to become one of the most popular educational software programs around, alongside other successful programs from the UK's original developers like Topologika with their music box program, Kudlian Soft with DataSweet, and 4Mation with their Maths, Literacy and Spelling programs. All of these educational software companies continue to grow their range of products today, ten years later!

Spex found its usefulness in several curriculum areas in education, including Design Technology, ICT and Mathematics and History all under the guise of a room designer.

We try not to market it as just a room designer though, rather, the room design aspect of Spex is a cover story to get children to grapple with design, spatial awareness, money, budgets and dimensions, mapping and much more.

In 2009 even though there are now thousands of educational software titles in the market, Spex still prospers!
Spex continues to benefit from its long term popularity because most of the sales, according to our research are made by word of mouth amongst teachers and education advisors, and that must be the greatest testament to any product.

Teachers, parents and children buy Spex because they like it; Teachers like Spex because of the benefits it provides in the classroom combined with a short learning curve to get to grips with a new software, and parents and children buy the software because they love it, it's simple but so much fun!

Spex might be dead simple but it has captured the imagination of several generations of school children, some of whom will be buying Spex for their own children as the software is developed during the next few years.

Spex has gained a real foothold in the educational software market and has endeared itself to thousands of teachers and children.

Based on the long term success of SPEX+ in UK Schools we are now delighted to introduce this brand new generation of Spex to the UK North American education market. SpexWorlds! software programs available are: House, School, Playground, Town, Tutankhamun and Lunar SpexWorlds! is a series of six new software programs which aid with learning in the areas of Design & Technology, Math, Geography, History and Science.