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[[Media:Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) Manual.pdf|Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) Manual]] (pdf) | [[Media:Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) Manual.pdf|Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) Manual]] (pdf) | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 16:31, 13 September 2010
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.
Covers
- The Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC)
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Back Cover
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Front Cover
Disc
- The Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC)
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The Program
Tape
- The Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC)
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GAC Tape side B
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GAC Tape side A
Manual
Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) Manual (pdf)
- The GAC Manual
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Frontpage
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Content
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Section 1
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Section 2
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Section 3
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Section 4
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Section 5
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Section 6
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Appendix
