Ken Nicholson
For the Australian footballer, see Ken Nicolson.
For the New Zealand cricketer, see Kenneth Nicholson.
Ken Nicholson is a video game developer.
Career
Nicholson is a video game developer and Windows graphics pioneer. He was the founder of GamePC Consortium and inventor of the technology used by Microsoft as the basis for Windows' DirectX graphics.[1]
- Exidy games: Crossbow, Cheyenne, Combat, Clay Pigeon, Crackshot, Chiller, Spin-A-Ball, Top Secret, Vertigo, Vortex
- Epyx games: California Games for Commodore 64, The Games: Summer Edition for Commodore 64 and IBM PC
- Media Vision games: Quantum Gate, Quantum Gate II, Critical Path, Forever Growing Garden
- Strategic Simulations games: Secret of the Silver Blades for MS-DOS
- ATI games: Mortal Kombat III for Windows 95, Super Bubsy for Windows 95
References
- ↑ Rahmat, Omid (2000-01-20). "DirectX - Better than NT?". Tom's Hardware Second Hand Smoke. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
External links
- "IMDB: Ken Nicholson?". Internet Movie Database. 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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