John Calhoun (software developer)

John Calhoun is an Apple Macintosh software developer. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he developed a series of shareware games (Glider, Glypha, etc.) for the Macintosh and Windows, under the name Soft Dorothy Software. [cite web
last = Klimas
first = Chris
title = Talking with John Calhoun (part 2)
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date = May 10, 2004
url = http://crunchable.net/articles/?p=180
accessdate = 2007-07-03 ] He initially published his own games, but later published through Casady & Greene.

His most famous creations are the "Glider" series: "Glider", "Glider 4.0", and "Glider PRO". In addition, he created the shareware games "Glypha III", "Stella Obscura", "MacTuberling", and commercial games "Pararena" and "Spaceway 2000" (co-written with Jeff Robbin), and an Apple Newton game, "Silicon Casino".

After the bankruptcy of Casady & Greene in 2003, Calhoun released Glider PRO as freeware on his personal website. [cite web
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Calhoun has since joined Apple Macintosh's programming team. Calhoun cited poor financial returns on games outside the "Glider" series as his primary reason for leaving the game development field. [cite web
last = Klimas
first = Chris
title = Talking with John Calhoun (Part 1)
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date = April 26, 2004
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References

External links

* [http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun John Calhoun's .mac Homepage]