Don Hopkins
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Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics.
He inspired Richard Stallman to use the term copyleft, coined Deep Crack as the name of the EFF DES cracker, built imaginative applications for the NeWS window system, ported the SimCity computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi player version of SimCity for X11, and did much of the core programming of The Sims.
Hopkins also wrote demonstrations of the ScriptX multimedia scripting language created by the Apple/IBM research spinoff Kaleida Labs, developed various OpenLaszlo applications and components, and is a hacker artist known for his artistic cellular automata. He is also known for having written a chapter “The X-Windows Disaster” on X Window System in the book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook.
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Recently Hopkins, supported by John Gilmore, adapted SimCity for the OLPC XO-1 laptop[1]. The current version includes pie menus and is explained in depth in a video released by Hopkins.
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