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Silicon Beach Software was an influential early developer of Software Products for the Macintosh Personal Computer . It was founded in San Diego, California by Charlie Jackson. Their best known product was SuperPaint , a graphics program which combined features of Apple's MacDraw and MacPaint with several innovations of its own. SuperPaint was the first program on the Macintosh to offer a Plug-in Architecture , allowing outside software developers to extend SuperPaint's capabilities. Another innovative Silicon Beach product was SuperCard , which like FullPaint , superseded the capabilities of an Apple-branded product (in this case, HyperCard ). SuperCard used a superset of the HyperTalk programming language and addressed common complaints about HyperCard by adding native support for color, multiple windows, support for vector images, menus and other features. Silicon Beach Software also produced a number of innovative Computer Games for the Macintosh. The most well known is '' Dark Castle '' released in 1986 . Unlike many games of the era, outside of simple rocks, the hero is largely empty-handed in the battle against his foes. It was Ported to several other Operating System s by other companies. Other products
Silicon Beach was acquired by Aldus in 1990, and in turn by Adobe Systems in 1994. Some former employees have reunited as Back to the Beach Software . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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