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''[[Amstrad Action]]'' launched a competition to produce an adventure and have it featured on a later covertape.
''[[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.
The covertape didn't include two standalone adventures which accompanied ''GAC'' in its original package when released.


== Covers ==
== Covers ==

Latest revision as of 00:07, 6 September 2020

The Graphic Adventure Creator (often shortened to GAC) was a game creation system/programming language for adventure games published by Incentive Software.

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 its original package when released.

Covers

Disc

Tape

See also

Manual

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