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[[Image:gac cover.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Graphic Adventure Creator cover]] | [[Image:gac cover.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Graphic Adventure Creator cover]] | ||
Published by [[Incentive Software]], | 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 | 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 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 | ''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]]''. | ||
== Manual == | == Manual == | ||
Revision as of 19:06, 2 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.