| Kurtis Davis Inc. (Kurtis J Davis Incorporated) is a small corporation that advertises Technology Consulting and Financial Management as the company's major focus. There are now many people who use Kurtis Davis Inc Software exclusively. Although the company states that its focus is Technology Consulting and Financial Management, most of what is seen is software development for x86 type computers, most notably FLaM (Pronounced "Flame") KSOS and VeloX KDI-IOS operating systems. These are heavily based on Linux by Linus Torvalds. KDI is also composed of smaller objective specific divisions including "NRG! Studios Productions" and "Gotham Telecommunications" Company History KDI first started with Kurtis Davis making hardware emulation software in C for Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS while still in high school. He distributed the software for free under the name Kurtis Software. After the software implementation was fully tested (an emulated sound test with faulty wiring even caught his friend's computer on fire) , Kurtis decided to make a logo and a Poor Man's Copyright. The logo was a crude floppy disk with KS imprinted on it with the word Kurtis above it and the word Software vertically to the right of the disk with Kurtis and Software sharing the same letter S. After the company officially incorporated, the name was changed to Kurtis Davis Inc. KS-3D (2001) In 2001, with the experience Kurtis had received from hardware-software programming, he turned his small outfit towards video game and system creation. This led to Kurtis's creation of the KS-3D game system. Despite the name, no 3D games were ever created for it. The system was built with a intel 486/55mhz processor, Diamond Stealth 2mb video card, 16mb RAM, 100mb Seagate HD, Creative Labs Soundblaster16 Audio Card, 4X CD-ROM, all on a Packard Bell Motherboard and a pair Gravis Gamepads. The KS-3D would boot to a standard bootable cd-rom that would contain a startup configuration that would mount the system's hard drive and boot the small onboard operating system. The OS was there simply to initialize the hardware and allow IO from the hard drive (for saving game info). The OS then would run the program on the cd-rom labeled ks3d.out. The games were written completely in c. Games made for it include Bob The Gecko, Balance Bike, Merlin's Quest, The Domain Of Destiny, and most notably Kurtis Sword (the first title of the five in the series) The KS-3D could also play MS-DOS games via a DOS-LIVE Game cd. the programs had to be completely installed to the harddrive and could not run from a cd (the KS-3D DOS-LIVE cd had to be in the drive at all times to run these games. After selling a whopping zero systems the KS-3D Project was abandoned. KS-3D2 (2003) In 2003, a year and a half after the demise of the KS-3D, Kurtis Designed another video game system the KS-3D2 which was much more advanced. Using the same style of programming, the KS-3D2 was a 3d Gaming system. It boasted a 32 bit Wavesonic Soundcard, 128bit 64MB aOpen 3D Graphics Card, 5.6 GB Maxtor SCSI hard drive, a 300mhz AMD processor, 128MB Ram, Dual NEC SCSI 32X Cartridge style CD-ROM Drives, and featured Logitech Wingman Controllers. Thanks to the OpenGL framework, the KS-3D2 had beautiful 3D games with resolution unmatched by any video game system available at the time 1024X768! However the resolution of TV's was not capable of handling this and much of the brilliant detail came out "washed". Also the KS-3D2 had to hook up to a tv via S-Video rather than standard composite video. Games released were: Mad Motorcycle, Balance Bike 3D2, Bob3D2, Ridiculous Skateboarding, Offroad Challenge, Kurtis Sword II - Dungeon Escape and Kurtis Sword III - Sword of Destiny. Kurtis Sword II - Dungeon Escape was extremely unpopular and almost killed the series. Boring, Difficult, and sloppily put together were the main reactions following a test of the game. It was the only game released for the KS-3D2 that was not Rendered in OpenGL. Kurtis Sword III - Sword of Destiny, is the single most popular game ever written by Kurtis Davis. It will be available in the official release of VeloX KDI-IOS. Both KS-3D2 boxes were sold at the price of $400 each. FLaM KS-OS 1.0 (2004) The FLaM OS was originally designed as the basic operating system for the KS-Dcube (KS-3D3) Game System that was never built. But the operating system was expanded upon and is still the only completely in-house operating system by Kurtis Davis Inc. The OS was unique in that you could compile one line at a time the run it and add to a running program. Other than that, it was not very useful and only 5 programs were ever made to run on it. Due to the ease of programming in the environment, some people ran the OS for the fun of it Incorporation (2006) In December of 2006, Kurtis J Davis incorporated in the state of California. The small divisions of Kurtis Software, Gotham Telecommunications, and NRG! Studios Productions all consolidated into the new Kurtis Davis Inc. New Logo and Slogan (2007) January of 2007 the Kurtis Davis Inc text written in KDI sans font is officially accepted as the Kurtis Davis Inc logo. The Triangular Delta symbol is also taken on as the company symbol. The Company Motto: "Radical Thinking Creates Radical Results" is also officially accepted. The motto means that in today's computer industry, high prices and long waiting for small ineffective results is wrong. Kurtis Davis Inc takes a radical approach and offers fast, professional, affordable service, resulting in radically effective results. FLaM KS-OS 2.1 (2007) The FLaM KS-OS 2.1 was the first software created under the new Kurtis Davis Inc. It is a full fledged Operating System with an upwards of twenty users. Updates and software for the system are completely free. It can run MS windows, Macintosh, Linux, andthe original KS-OS software. Being that this system is completely free, Kurtis Davis Inc officially announced that it is discontinuing the software. Updates and Free Sotware from the KDI server will cease as of 2009. VeloX KDI-IOS (2008) Scheduled for release in June 2008, the new VeloX Operating System (to replace the FLaM OS) is currently being tested and is yeilding great performance and reliability (423.1% more than Windows as of April 14th) It will run all MS Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and FLaM Software. Concieved in February of 2008, the system is a compiled hybrid of slackware linux and KDI-IOS (Kurtis Davis Inc Integrated Operating System) It will be released with KS-3D, KS-3D2, and MultiPlatform Support. It will also include KurtBastard (the new windows emulator that runs more than twice the speed of windows.) and the first three Kurtis Sword Games. |
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