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The personal home page of open source developer, author and speaker Ken O. Burtch.

Software

Ken O. Burtch has been a computer industry leader since the early 1990's. He founded PegaSoft Canada and developed sofware for the Apple IIgs computer, including the DrawTools animation kit and the award-winning game Quest for the Hoard. He began using Linux before it was cool and authored Linux Shell Scripting with Bash as well as articles for magazines and newspapers. He enjoys working for relaxed companies, designing new inventive solutions to challenging problems. Loyal, hard-working and outspoken, his hobbies include collecting animation, recreational walking, playing piano and discussing programming and ethics.

Ken O. Burtch
A Computing Legacy

Selected Software Credits

Open Source / Linux Software

Business Shell (BUSH)

Design and developent of the only Linux shell engineered specifically for professional web applications.

[BUSH screenshot]

Download it on the BUSH page.

Tiny IDE for Ada/Anything (TIA)

Design and development of the text-screen console IDE for Linux.

Download it on the BUSH page.

Texttools

Design and development of the curses-based objected-oriented GUI for Linux.

Download it on the Texttools page.

System Manager in a Box

Design and developed this expert system diagnostic tool which inspired other tools like Nexxus.

Download it on the System Manager in a Box page.

Statftime

Design and development of the file-naming and information tool.

Download it on the Statftime page.

Apple IIgs Software (the early days...)

Quest for the Hoard

"Quest for the Hoard is well-programmed and is an enjoyable game" -- Scarlett
"Quest for the Hoard is a very impressive product...a lot of work obviously went into this program's creation, and it shows." -- GS+

Apple IIgs game Quest for the Hoard screenshot

Download it on the Old Shareware page.

Pegasus Pascal

A heavily-extended version of Pascal that used indentation to determine the scope of statements (like Python and Turing). Written in Apple IIgs assembly language.

Treasures from Heaven: Quest for the Hoard II

"Definitely a commercial quality game" -- Shareware Solutions II

Download it on the Old Shareware page.

PegaSoft's Jukebox

"A true IIgs multimedia experience" -- Shareware Solutions II

Download it on the Old Shareware page.

DrawTools

An assembly language toolkit for game designers with palette effects, high-speed animation, interrupt and device management. Our top selling Apple IIgs product.