Donald Brown (programmer)

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Computer programmer

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.

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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 software² 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.⁴ 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.⁵

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References

Plamondon, Robert: An adventure game for the Apple II with (almost) everything: Eamon, Creative Computing, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1983. https://web.archive.org/web/20050713055058/http://atarimagazines.planetmirror.com/creative/v9n1/94_An_adventure_game_for_the.php ↩
LeVitus, Bob (1990). Stupid Mac Tricks. Addison-Wesley. p. 63. ISBN 0-201-57046-7. 0-201-57046-7 ↩
Scott, Greg (5 September 1988). "Scores Virus Alert". U-M Computing News. Vol. 3, no. 15. The University of Michigan Computing Center. pp. 18–19. https://books.google.com/books?id=WSBVAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Donald+Brown%22+%22CE+Software%22+Vaccine&pg=RA4-PA18 ↩
LeVitus, Bob (1990). Stupid Mac Tricks. Addison-Wesley. p. 63. ISBN 0-201-57046-7. 0-201-57046-7 ↩
Spymac to Introduce Wheel Online Service to France Market[permanent dead link], IT Management News, 24 August 2004. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2004/08/24/spymac-to-introduce-wheel-online-service-to-france-market ↩