Crack dot Com was a computer game development company. The company was co-founded by ex-id Software

Id Software

Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...

 programmer Dave Taylor

Dave D. Taylor

Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming.In 1993 he graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering....

, and Jonathan Clark.

The first game the company made was Abuse

Abuse (computer game)

Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Origin Systems/Electronic Arts. It was released in , and originally ran on MS-DOS and Linux operating systems. An improved port of the game was released for Mac OS by Bungie Studios and for the Acorn Archimedes by R-Comp...

, a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game which sold over 80,000 copies worldwide. Abuse was ported to a wide variety of platforms including DOS, Win32, Mac OS, AIX, SGI Irix, Amiga, and Linux.

Prior to the company's closing in October 1998, they were working on Golgotha

Golgotha (computer game)

Golgotha was a video game that was being developed by Crack dot Com prior to shutting down in 1998. According to Dave Taylor, the game's name came from Shakespeare's King Lear tragedy, wherein Golgotha was a massive plain and a future battlefield....

, a hybrid of first-person shooter and real-time strategy. Crack dot com made the source and data for both Golgotha and Abuse public domain.

External links and references

• Slashdot: Crack.com closes shop
• "So long, Crack.com", by Jonathan Clark