Ken Nicholson

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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] Examples include:

• Exidy games: Crossbow, Cheyenne, Combat, , , Chiller, , Top Secret, Vertigo, Vortex
• Epyx games: California Games for Commodore 64, for Commodore 64 and IBM PC
• Media Vision games: Quantum Gate, , Critical Path,
• Strategic Simulations games: Secret of the Silver Blades for MS-DOS
• ATI games: for Windows 95, Super Bubsy for Windows 95

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External links[]

• "IMDB: Ken Nicholson?". Internet Movie Database. 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-03-15.

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