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David William Plummer (born 1968) is a Canadian-American programmer and entrepreneur. He created the Task Manager for Windows, the Space Cadet Pinball ports to Windows NT, Zip file support for Windows, HyperCache[2] for the Amiga and many other software products. He has been issued six patents in the software engineering space.[3] He holds the world record score for the video game Tempest.[4] He is also known for his YouTube channels, Dave's Garage[5] and Dave's Attic.[6
 
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David William Plummer (born 1968) is a Canadian-American programmer and entrepreneur. He created the Task Manager for Windows, the Space Cadet Pinball ports to Windows NT, Zip file support for Windows, HyperCache[2] for the Amiga and many other software products. He has been issued six patents in the software engineering space.[3] He holds the world record score for the video game Tempest.[4] He is also known for his YouTube channels, Dave's Garage[5] and Dave's Attic.[6
Amazing. If only I'd known this in 1995.
 
So he didnt write the game originally he just ported it to the Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC versions of Windows NT 4.0, so pretty much he was just a tracer.

 
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