Manuel

Its great to hear good comments about Diablo after all these years, ..thank you! I have to say that I really don't remember receiving anything for the ADAM. and Royalties from Extended Software were really next to nothing. Actually, I only heard of Image Microcorp when I read this article last week,,lol. But I have seen other versions around too that I wasn't involved in. You will notice that my name is not mentioned on the credits for the ADAM, as it is on most other platforms. There was even a macintosh version, however it didn't make it to the market.

I am the original Author of Diablo. I developed it on or around 1982 on the Texas Instraments TI 99/4A Home Computer. There was a Software Competition in Sydney Australia in which I won first prize for the game. I later went on to license it on many platforms, although many more appeared that I had no involvement in. Broderbund Japan licensed it for the gameboy and called it "Blodia" for trademark issues due to Diablo Printers back then. They merely flipped the first 3 letters for the last 3. My inspiration for it and also for its name was from the attached image of the french version of the "15 puzzle" game called "Diablotin", which had been around for over a hundered years. Happy to answer an more questions., Cheers Manuel