Muse Software
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Muse Software was a software
Software publisher
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 and computer game publisher
Video game publisher
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 and developer
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 for the first generation of home computer
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s. They first published for the Apple II
Apple II
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, and later expanded to the Commodore 64
Commodore 64
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, Atari
Atari
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, and the IBM PC
IBM PC
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.

MUSE was founded in 1978 by Ed Zaron. Silas Warner
Silas Warner
Silas Warner was a game programmer and the first employee of Muse Software. Among other games, he created Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein....

 was MUSE Software's first employee. Initially publishing games, the team also sold non-game software such as Super-Text (written by Zaron), a word processor
Word processor
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, and Appilot (written by Warner), a course-writing language. Their original market was for the Apple II and II+, with their first programs sold on cassette, and later on floppy disk
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. They expanded their software offerings for other 6502-based computers, such as the Commodore 64
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

 and the Atari 800.

The company closed down in 1987
1987 in video gaming
-Notable releases:* January 14, Nintendo releases Zelda II: The Adventure of Link in January for the Famicom Disk System in Japan only. The game would go unreleased in America for nearly two years afterwards.* February 20, Konami releases Contra...

. Hence Wolfenstein 3D
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(the father of first-person shooter
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games) was born, trading upon the well-respected name among older gaming enthusiasts.

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