Donald M. Brown is a programmer and the creator of '' Eamon'', a long-running non-commercial

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series for the

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computer first released in 1980.

CE Software

Brown was a founding partner of CE Software in

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and created at least two games for the company: '' SwordThrust'', an expanded commercial version of ''Eamon'', and ''

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'', a financial strategy game. Brown was later instrumental in the development of CE Software's '' QuicKeys''

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software and the '' QuickMail'' email client for the

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. In the 1980s, Donald Brown produced the

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Vaccine for the Macintosh. In addition, Donald Brown produced the Executive Decision Maker

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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. Brown later worked for Prairie Group, a software development company in West Des Moines.

Other work

Donald Brown also worked for

Spymac Spymac was an online Macintosh community and rumour site launched at the end of 2001 by Holger Ehlis and Kevin April, which grew to be the largest Macintosh community at the time, having around 600,000 users and 25 employees as of 2004. Spymac was k ...

, and led development of their Wheel suite of internet applications.Spymac to Introduce Wheel Online Service to France Market
''IT Management News'', 24 August 2004.

References

External links

Eamon Wiki: Donald Brown

Eamon Adventurer's Guild Online
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