Glenn R. Wichman (born 1960) is a

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and one of the original authors of the

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'', along with Michael Toy,

Ken Arnold Kenneth Cutts Richard Cabot Arnold (born 1958) is an American computer programmer well known as one of the developers of the 1980s dungeon-crawling video game '' Rogue'', for his contributions to the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BS ...

and Jon Lane. Wichman has also contributed to many other commercial software programs, including

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, ''

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'' and

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. He is the creator of the

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games '' Toxic Ravine'' and ''Mombasa''.

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