Startly Technologies
Encyclopedia
Startly Technologies is a software development company based in West Des Moines
, Iowa
.
, a text adventure game for the Apple II
by Donald Brown
, was one of the company's first titles. Projects over the next 20 years focused on business communications and productivity, with various software solutions for both Macintosh
and Windows
platforms.
In April 2004, a group of CE Software employees formed Startly Technologies, acquiring the operating assets of CE Software and taking the company private.
West Des Moines, Iowa
West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents and the United States Census Bureau estimated that 53,889 residents lived there in...
, Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
.
History
CE Software began as the programming arm of Computer Emporium, a retail computer store begun in 1978 by Richard Skeie, and started publishing software in 1981. SwordThrustSwordThrust
SwordThrust is an interactive text adventure game for the Apple II computer, created by Donald Brown and published by CE Software in 1981. It consists of seven separate adventures and is the commercial successor to Brown's Eamon .- Premise :Players take on the role of a warrior/adventurer in the...
, a text adventure game for the Apple II
Apple II
The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977...
by Donald Brown
Donald Brown (programmer)
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. Brown subsequently developed SwordThrust, an expanded...
, was one of the company's first titles. Projects over the next 20 years focused on business communications and productivity, with various software solutions for both Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
and Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
platforms.
In April 2004, a group of CE Software employees formed Startly Technologies, acquiring the operating assets of CE Software and taking the company private.
Products
Current product offerings from Startly Technologies include:- QuicKeys, a task automator
- Trans Lucy 2, a media player
- QuickConference, a communications utility
- Docktopus, a Mac OS X dock utility
- InOut Tracker.