Donald Brown (programmer) explained

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]

CE Software

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.

Other work

Donald Brown also worked for Spymac, and led development of their Wheel suite of internet applications.[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Plamondon, Robert: An adventure game for the Apple II with (almost) everything: Eamon, Creative Computing, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1983.
  2. Book: LeVitus, Bob . Bob LeVitus

    . Stupid Mac Tricks . Bob LeVitus . 1990 . . 63 . 0-201-57046-7 . registration.

  3. Scott . Greg . 5 September 1988 . Scores Virus Alert . U-M Computing News . The University of Michigan Computing Center . 3 . 15 . 18–19.
  4. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2004/08/24/spymac-to-introduce-wheel-online-service-to-france-market Spymac to Introduce Wheel Online Service to France Market