We released a whole bunch of our CD ROMs including ‘Private Prison’ and ‘Private Castle”.Īround the same time, IBM held a “Da Vinci” contest where 1st prize included color laptops (which cost about $8000 back then). JMC writes: “This was the time CD-ROM games like ‘The 7th Guest’ started to appear and we decided to do a CD-ROM and teamed with ‘Private’, one of the bigger players in the over-18 games market. Surprisingly, this caught on and people asked for more. The first thing they did was develop a Tetris game clone and offered it on floppy disks in the ‘little ads’ in Computer Magazine.
If you thought Belgium was all Beer and Chocolates, then you may be surprised to learn Belgium is also the home of one of the world’s most successful music production applications FL STUDIO.Īfter doing more boring jobs (in stock market software & network solutions) Jean-Marie Cannie and Frank Van Biesen (company founders) wanted to have some more fun.
Image-Line is a Belgium based software company, founded in 1994.
