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Input (English): Context: LEd (formerly LaTeX Editor) is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product., History.
19771990: Founding and first projects.
ASCII was founded in 1977 by Kazuhiko Nishi and Keiichiro Tsukamoto. Originally a publisher of a magazine with the same name "ASCII", talks between Bill Gates and Nishi led to a creation of Microsoft's first overseas sales office, ASCII Microsoft, in 1979. Nishi was also known for being the creator of the MSX in 1983, an 8-bit standard computer well known in the former USSR and Japan. In 1984, ASCII engaged itself in semiconductor business, followed by a further expansion into commercial online service in 1985 under the brand of ASCII-NET. As the popularity of home video game systems soared in the 1980s, ASCII became active in the development and publishing of software and peripherals for popular consoles such as the Family Computer and Mega Drive. After Microsoft's public stock offering in 1986, ASCII Microsoft was dissolved. At around the same time, the company was also obliged to reform itself as a result of its aggressive diversification in the first half of the 1980s. The company went public in 1989., Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used., SimTunes is a children 's software toy designed by Toshio Iwai and released by Maxis in 1996 . It involves painting a picture using large pixels , where each color represents a musical note . The player places up to four different - colored Bugz , which represent musical instruments or vocal syllables , on this picture , and can change their starting directions and relative speeds . The Bugz crawl over the picture , playing notes corresponding with the colors ; and they turn , move randomly , or jump in response to function symbols that can be added to the dots . SimTunes was originally developed in the early 1990s by Iwai as a game titled Sound Fantasy for the Super NES / Super Famicom . Many of the ideas and elements in Sound Fantasy are present in SimTunes . Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS was also designed by Iwai and is considered a spiritual sequel to SimTunes ., Education and early work.
Iwai was born in Kira, Aichi, Japan. As a child, he spent time creating flip book-style animations in the corner of text books and making motor-driven mechanical toys, since these were the only technologies available to him. In 1981 Iwai matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media. Influenced by the work of Norman McLaren, he began producing installation art that combined pre-cinema animation techniques (the phenakistoscope and the zoetrope) with modern methods of image capture and creation (photocopiers, video cameras and computer graphics) and of stroboscopic lighting (video monitors, video projectors and LEDs). His 1985 installation "Time Stratum" won the Gold prize at the High Technology Art Exhibition '85, held in Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo. "Time Stratum II" was awarded the Grand Prize at the 17th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo. In 1987 Iwai graduated from the University of Tsukuba with a master's degree in Plastic Art and Mixed Media. In the same year, Iwai designed his first published videogame, "Otocky", in association with ASCII Corporation., EA Maxis is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA), serving as one of its four major video game development labels. The company was founded in 1987 as Maxis Software, an American independent video game development company, and later became known as Maxis., A brush is a tool with bristles, wire or other filaments, used for cleaning, grooming hair, make up, painting, surface finishing and for many other purposes. It is one of the most basic and versatile tools known to mankind, and the average household may contain several dozen varieties. It generally consists of a handle or block to which filaments are affixed either parallel- or perpendicular-wise, depending on the way the brush is to be gripped during use. The material of both the block and bristles or filaments is chosen to withstand hazards of its application, such as corrosive chemicals, heat or abrasion., Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games. As of 2014, Electronic Arts was the world's fourth-largest gaming company by revenue after Tencent, Sony and Microsoft 
The company sparked controversies over its advertising efforts, and acquisition of other studios., Subject: simtunes, Relation: platform, Options: (A) basic (B) home computer (C) microsoft windows (D) msx
Output (English): microsoft windows