Ken Nicholson Explained

Ken Nicholson is a video game developer.

Career

Nicholson is a video game developer and Windows graphics pioneer. He was the founder of GamePC Consortium and inventor of the technology used by Microsoft as the basis for Windows' DirectX graphics.^[1] Examples include:

• Exidy games: Crossbow, Cheyenne, Combat, Clay Pigeon, Crackshot, Chiller, Spin-A-Ball, Top Secret, Vertigo, Vortex
• Epyx games: California Games for Commodore 64, The Games: Summer Edition for Commodore 64 and IBM PC
• Media Vision games: Quantum Gate, Quantum Gate II, Critical Path, Forever Growing Garden
• Strategic Simulations games: Secret of the Silver Blades for MS-DOS
• ATI games: Mortal Kombat III for Windows 95, Super Bubsy for Windows 95

External links

• News: IMDB: Ken Nicholson?. Internet Movie Database. 2016-03-15. 2016-03-15.

Notes and References

1. News: Rahmat. Omid. DirectX - Better than NT?. Tom's Hardware Second Hand Smoke. 2000-01-20. 2006-12-23.