Dan IllowskyDeveloper BIO
From: "Dan Illowsky"
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:00:19 -0800
Jim,
As far as my bio...
My first games were for the Apple II. They were "Snack Attack", "CountyFair" and "Space Cadette". "Snack Attack" was the best selling arcade style game of 1983.
I wrote my first IBM PC game with Michael Abrash. It was a sequel tothe Apple II version of Snack Attack that I had done. Michael then wrote Cosmic Crusader and Big Top. I wrote Master Miner. I published all these games from my home under the name, Funtastic, Incorporated. All the IBM PC games were eventually licensed to IBM which sold the games under their own label outside of the US.
I also wrote a shareware game to teach math to young children. The game is called, "Mondo Math." It is in used in many school systems.
I have been an independent computer consultant for the last 6 years. I wrote parts of the Windows 95 OS for Microsoft, helped develop a custom handwriting recognition processor with Intel, and ported the Xerox Star OS to run under Windows. I optimized the libraries that RSA Data Security uses in their encryption products. For the last couple of years I have mostly worked on MPEG related hardware and software to do fast video and audio decompression.
By the way, just about all the techniques we used in writing these early games have been published in numerous articles that Michael and I wrote for PC Tech Journal, Byte, PC Magazine and PC World. Probably the most interesting of these was the cover story for the July 1986 issue of PC Tech Journal entitled, "Animation Techniques."
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