Joe Williams also known as "Joedelta", is best known for founding Delta Tao Software

Delta Tao Software

Delta Tao Software is a small software developer and publisher focusing on games for Macintosh, though some of its more popular products have been ported to Windows, Linux, and other platforms.-History:...

. He designed and produced several popular applications and games for Macintosh, including Spaceward Ho!

Spaceward Ho!

Spaceward Ho! is a turn-based science fiction computer strategy game that was written by Peter Commons, designed by Joe Williams and published by Delta Tao Software. The first version was released in 1990, and further upgrades followed regularly; the current version, 5.0.5, was released on July...

, Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire is a commercial solitaire game developed by Delta Tao Software for the Macintosh. The game was later ported to Linux by Loki Software....

, Clan Lord

Clan Lord

Clan Lord is the Macintosh's first massively multiplayer online role-playing game , made by Delta Tao Software. It was started in the late 1990s and is still going, with a regular update every 3 weeks. In 2001 it was voted one of the top ten Mac games of all time in GAMES Magazine. By the end of...

, Color Dark Castle

Color Dark Castle

Color Dark Castle is the first Computer Game in the Dark Castle series developed after the rights were sold from Silicon Beach Software to . Color Dark Castle is essentially a remake of the original Dark Castle, in color...

 and the paint program Color MacCheese.

Williams was born James Joseph Williams II in Miami, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

. He graduated from Delta Junction High School in 1983, and was an undergraduate at Caltech. Before becoming a software developer, he was a professional poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

player.

External links

• Delta Tao Homepage.
• Interview with Joe.
• Joe's Blog at Delta Tao.