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Mark Allen (software developer)

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Mark Allen is a software engineer, game programmer and game designer. As a student at the University of California, San Diego, Allen used UCSD Pascal to develop a 6502 interpreter for the Pascal language in 1978, along with Richard Gleaves. This work later became the basis for Apple Pascal in 1979.

Later, Allen developed a number of well-received computer games for the Apple II, including Stellar Invaders, Sabotage[1][2] and Pest Patrol[3][4]. Sabotage, In particular, became a classic Apple II game and sparked numerous clones.

One such clone of Sabotage was shipped as a standard piece of software on early iPods that had displays. It was called Parachute [5].

Reference

  1. ^ Video play-through of Sabotage on an Apple II
  2. ^ Linzmayer, Owen (Fall 1983). "Pest Patrol".
  3. ^ Parachute_(iPod_game)
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