Blambot

male
Comic book letterers, comic book, Type foundries, Independent type foundries, shareware, Letterer
Blambot is the name of an online type foundry and is the alias of freeware and shareware computer font designer Nate Piekos. Blambot specializes in...

Scott Miller

male
Video Game Designer, Business Person, Kingdom of Kroz, Apogee Software, 3D Realms, design…shareware
Scott Miller is an entrepreneur and former game programmer. Miller is the founder and CEO of Apogee Software, Ltd. (currently known as 3D Realms...
Harold Lohner

Harold Lohner

male, 51 years old
Red Circle, Atlas Solid, Ouija Boards, Koch Quadrat, Koch Dingbats, Captain Howdy…shareware
Harold Lohner (born 1958 in Schenectady, New York) is a printmaker and designer of freeware and shareware fonts. Lohner has deisgned over 100...

Jeff Vogel

male
game programmer, The Story About the Toddler, The Story About the Baby, Spiderweb Software, Geneforge series, Avernum series…shareware
Jeff Vogel is the president and primary programmer for the Spiderweb Software company, which produces shareware computer games for Macintosh and...

Tim Sweeney

male
Video Game Designer, University of Maryland, College Park, first-person shooter, game engine, shareware, Unreal Engine
Tim Sweeney is a computer game programmer and the founder of Epic Games, previously known as Epic MegaGames. He established Epic as a shareware...

Steve Moraff

male
SVGA, Moraff's Revenge, Alternative Community School, Mahjong solitaire, shareware, National Press Club
Steve Moraff is a video game designer best known for a series of DOS games launched in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Raised in Ithaca, NY, Steve...
Bob Wallace

Bob Wallace

male, deceased (2002)
University of Washington alumni, Psychedelic advocates and proponents, American, philanthropist, marin, Microsoft…shareware
Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 - September 20, 2002), was the ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware, creator of the word processing...
Andrew Fluegelman

Andrew Fluegelman

male, deceased (1985)
computer programmer, writer, inventor, disappeared, software, American…shareware
Andrew Cardoza Fluegelman (born November 27 1943 -- presumably died July 6 1985) was a publisher, programmer and attorney best known as the...
Jim Knopf

Jim Knopf

male
German, PC-File, PC-Write, flat file, Jim Button, flat file database…shareware
Jim Knopf, nicknamed Jim Button ("Knopf" meaning "button" in German), is considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware (so named by...
Edgar Vigdal

Edgar Vigdal

male
norwegian, computer programmer, game programmer, Microsoft Windows, amiga, Commodore International…shareware
Edgar M. Vigdal is a Norwegian game programmer. He first became famous for his Amiga ShareWare games "Deluxe Pacman" and "Deluxe Galaga" in the...