Difference between revisions of "The Graphic Adventure Creator"
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In the heyday of the CPC, few major-label commercial games were produced using ''GAC'' (probably fewer than with ''The Quill''), but it had a vast following in the homebrew and public domain scenes - despite a comparatively high retail price of £24.95 in the UK. | In the heyday of the CPC, few major-label commercial games were produced using ''GAC'' (probably fewer than with ''The Quill''), but it had a vast following in the homebrew and public domain scenes - despite a comparatively high retail price of £24.95 in the UK. | ||
| − | ''GAC'' was also notorious for its [[Lenslok]] protection system, which mercifully was removed before the utility appeared on a covertape included with the January 1992 issue (#76) of ''[[Amstrad Action]]''. ''[[Amstrad Action]'' launched a competition to produce an adventure and have it featured on a later covertape. The covertape didn't include two standalone adventures which accompanied ''GAC'' in it's original package when released. | + | ''GAC'' was also notorious for its [[Lenslok]] protection system, which mercifully was removed before the utility appeared on a covertape included with the January 1992 issue (#76) of ''[[Amstrad Action]]''. ''[[Amstrad Action]]'' launched a competition to produce an adventure and have it featured on a later covertape. The covertape didn't include two standalone adventures which accompanied ''GAC'' in it's original package when released. |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 03:49, 11 September 2006
Published by Incentive Software, The Graphic Adventure Creator (often shortened to GAC) was a game creation system/programming language for adventure games.
Its main advance over the already well established The Quill was a clever graphics editor, one of very few vector graphics editors for the CPC. This enabled pictures to be drawn using a minimal amount of memory.
In the heyday of the CPC, few major-label commercial games were produced using GAC (probably fewer than with The Quill), but it had a vast following in the homebrew and public domain scenes - despite a comparatively high retail price of £24.95 in the UK.
GAC was also notorious for its Lenslok protection system, which mercifully was removed before the utility appeared on a covertape included with the January 1992 issue (#76) of Amstrad Action. Amstrad Action launched a competition to produce an adventure and have it featured on a later covertape. The covertape didn't include two standalone adventures which accompanied GAC in it's original package when released.
See also
Manual
- The GAC Manual
Frontpage
Content
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Appendix
