Altosoft and principal Peter Busch work with the contract bridge community.
Altosoft develops the popular Compscore3 bridge scoring program. Altosoft has also created and hosts bridge club web sites.
Compscore3 and its predecessor Compscore2 are used by hundreds of bridge clubs and many tournament directors across Australia, and are used at major gold point events including the Summer Festival of Bridge, Barrier Reef Congress and others in Australia, and at New Zealand's National Congress.
Altosoft also hosts the bridge portal Bridge Australia, which is used as a respository for selected National congress results.
Developer Peter Busch is a national tournament director in Australia, and in his pre-bridge life spent over 20 years in the IT industry where
he developed off-the-shelf and custom software packages, mainly in the accounting arena.
As a bridge player and national tournament director, he is well placed to design a bridge scoring system that is intuitive to users,
covering all necessary aspects of running club sessions and tournaments.
Interested? Have a look at out detailed Compscore3 page, and download a fully functioning evaluation.
What's new?
Bridge Australia web sites - Important change December 2023
Wer have recently changed hosts to an Australian web host, and have also engaged the services of IT professionals to assist us with hosting
One change is that we now have SSL security on all sites. Without a SSL certificate, many web
browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Safari display warnings suggesting that the site is not safe, and this is becoming more and more
common as web browsers bring out new versions.
Two things clubs and members should note:
1. If you use a bridgeaustralia.org domain, the club web site address no longer needs "www" in it. You may need to change your browser bookmark.
If you're having trouble accessing your club's web site, there is a link on our Club Web Sites List.
2. Clubs will need to make sure their Compscore3 Web Results Upload setting uses the new secure domain name, and doesn't have the www prefix,
for example, https://myclub.bridgeaustralia.org. The difference from what might be there now is firstly "http" becomes "https" and secondly "www." is removed.
Clubs still on Compscore2 will not be able to upload to upload from within Compscore2, but can still use their your Web Site management portal to
upload results, so it might be a convenient time to upgrade to Compscore3 for a cost of $75.