Donald M. Brown is a programmer and the creator of Eamon, a long-running non-commercial role-playing game series for the Apple II computer first released in 1980.[1]
Brown was a founding partner of CE Software in West Des Moines, Iowa and created at least two games for the company: SwordThrust, an expanded commercial version of Eamon, and Wall Street, a financial strategy game. Brown was later instrumental in the development of CE Software's QuicKeys macro recorder software[2] and the QuickMail email client for the Macintosh. In the 1980s, Donald Brown produced the antivirus software Vaccine for the Macintosh.[3] In addition, Donald Brown produced the Executive Decision Maker desk accessory and the Desk Accessory Mover software utility; the latter was one of the first (if not the first) utilities that allowed users to install and move desk accessories on the Apple Macintosh platform.[2] Brown later worked for Prairie Group, a software development company in West Des Moines.
Donald Brown also worked for Spymac, and led development of their Wheel suite of internet applications.[4]
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