Alan B. Clark (10-16-1959 to 4-29-1999), became interested in computers from an early age. He worked at a store selling computers in the late 70s. In the early 80s he was co-owner of UltraSoft and authored Mask of the Sun and others. Later, he worked with Synergistics and others on many, many games. He loved working on games and wrote elegant code. He was tragically run over by car thieves in 1999 and killed.