Donald M. Brown is a computer programmer and creator of Eamon, a long-running non-commercial RPG computer game series for the Apple II computer released in 1980, and a system designed to allow authors to create their own adventure games.[1] Brown subsequently developed SwordThrust, an expanded commercial version of Eamon. He was a founding partner of CE Software (the company which published SwordThrust), and was instrumental in the development of the QuicKeys macro recorder software and QuickMail email client for the Apple Macintosh. Brown also worked for Spymac, and led development of their Wheel suite of internet applications.[2] He currently works for Prairie Group, a software development company in West Des Moines, Iowa.