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Loriciel Phaser (West Phaser)

2006-09-11T08:08:24Z

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[[Image:West Phaser.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The West Phaser light gun]]

.. Another light gun for the CPC ..
This was developed by popular French company Loricel. They modeled it on a Western revolver, hence the name ''West Phaser''. It was sadly unreleased in the UK but users were able to import. An outstanding feature was that the user could program his/her own games for use with the ''West Phaser''. Games released on it include ''Crazy Shot'' and ''Steve McQueen''.

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AMX Mouse

2006-09-11T08:05:29Z

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[[Image:Amx mouse 10.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The original mouse with red buttons and a logo]]

A mouse by the British company [[Advanced Memory Systems]].

The mouse was connected to the joystick port of the CPC. An additional lead plugged into the power port in the monitor where the disc drive gained it's power. The disc drive power lead could plug into the AMX Mouse power port.

There were three versions in all.

== Other ways to connect a mouse to the CPC ==

[[Atari-ST mouse adapter]]

[[dk'tronics Mouse Interface]]

Modern:

[[SYMBiFACE II]]

== Pictures ==
<gallery caption="AMX Mouse">
Image:Amx mouse 1.jpg|The mouse
Image:Amx mouse 2.jpg|The interface goes into the joystick port
Image:Amx mouse 3.jpg|
Image:Amx mouse 4.jpg|
</gallery>

== Software ==

[[AMX Art]]
[[Stop Press]]
MAX
AMX 3D Zilicon

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Electronic Arts

2006-09-11T08:03:00Z

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Electronic Arts began in 1983 to produce software for the Commodore 64 computers and IBM compatiables. They later branched onto other machines - their best known title ''The Bards Tale'' was released on practically every machine of the time.

They are still going strong today with their games based on the ''Harry Potter'' licence as-well as the ''FIFA Football'' series.

Arnor

2006-09-11T08:00:03Z

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'''Arnor Ltd.''' was British software company, based in Peterborough that existed from 1985 till 1995. They were named after one of the locations from ''The Lord of the Rings'' and the manuals included many quotes from the book. They pionierred the use of ROM software on the CPC and their releases of Maxam and Protext also came on cartridge (a single tiny ROM board) in addition to their tape/disc/ROM format.

== Releases for CPC ==
* [[Maxam]]
* Maxam 1.5 (ROM version which needed [[Protext]]
* Maxam 2 (CP/M Plus version)
* [[Protext]] (tape/disc/ROM based word processor. CP/M Plus version also released which combined Protext, ProSpell and ProMerge).
* ProSpell (ROM/disc based spellchecker)
* ProMerge (disc based mail merge facilities)
* ProMerge Plus (ROM based mail merge facilities)
* Pocket Protext (CP/M Plus version of Protext minus spellcheck and mail merge)
* Protext Filer and Protext Office (Uses Protext CP/M or Protext and ProMerge (Plus) to add database/office facilities)
* Pocket ProSpell (a demo based spellchecker given to subscribers of ''[[Amstrad Action]]'' in 1987)
* UTOPIA (ROM based utility which expanded CPC Basic with new commands.

Stop Press

2006-09-11T07:52:13Z

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''Stop Press'' was the debugged version of ''AMX Pagemaker''. During the debugging session, US company Aldus registered Pagemaker as a trademark forcing AMS to change the name. To accompany the release, a data disc of fonts and clip art was included - this was entitled ''Extra Extra''.

Page files for ''Stop Press'' could be so huge, it almost filled a side of a standard 3" disc. A third party compressor was released in 1988/9 by a company called Medway/King.

The Graphic Adventure Creator

2006-09-11T07:49:27Z

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[[Image:gac cover.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Graphic Adventure Creator cover]]

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 ==

* [[List of games created using The Graphic Adventure Creator]]

[[Category:Applications]]

== Manual ==

<gallery caption="The GAC Manual">
Image:GAC frontpage.jpg|Frontpage
Image:GAC content.jpg|Content
Image:GAC sec 1 1.jpg|Section 1
Image:GAC sec 1 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 2 1.jpg|Section 2
Image:GAC sec 2 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 2 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 3 1.jpg|Section 3
Image:GAC sec 3 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 3 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 4 1.jpg|Section 4
Image:GAC sec 4 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 4 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 4 4.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 1.jpg|Section 5
Image:GAC sec 5 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 4.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 5.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 6 1.jpg|Section 6
Image:GAC appendix a .jpg|Appendix
Image:GAC appendix b.jpg|
</gallery>

The Graphic Adventure Creator

2006-09-11T07:48:58Z

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[[Image:gac cover.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Graphic Adventure Creator cover]]

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 ==

* [[List of games created using The Graphic Adventure Creator]]

[[Category:Applications]]

== Manual ==

<gallery caption="The GAC Manual">
Image:GAC frontpage.jpg|Frontpage
Image:GAC content.jpg|Content
Image:GAC sec 1 1.jpg|Section 1
Image:GAC sec 1 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 2 1.jpg|Section 2
Image:GAC sec 2 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 2 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 3 1.jpg|Section 3
Image:GAC sec 3 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 3 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 4 1.jpg|Section 4
Image:GAC sec 4 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 4 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 4 4.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 1.jpg|Section 5
Image:GAC sec 5 2.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 3.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 4.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 5 5.jpg|
Image:GAC sec 6 1.jpg|Section 6
Image:GAC appendix a .jpg|Appendix
Image:GAC appendix b.jpg|
</gallery>

3D Construction Kit

2006-09-11T07:45:32Z

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3D Construction Kit was a utility developed by [[Incentive]], enabling end-users to develop games using the same [[Freescape]] system they had employed in games such as [[Driller]], [[Dark Side]] and [[Total Eclipse]]. The utility was marketed by [[Domark]].

== Video ==

A video tutorial was distributed in the package, on a gold VHS tape. The video tutorial demonstrated construction in the Freescape environment (Amiga and ZX Spectrum). The Amiga version specialised on creating a tunnel which when shot, would make the roof vanish and the left wall move to join the right wall. They also built a house and another area and bridged the gap between areas. A border was added and a basic game control was added. The Spectrum version dealt with the tunnel and shooting.

== Manual ==

<gallery caption="3D Construction Kit (English)">
Image:construction kit frontpage.jpg|Frontpage
Image:construction kit content.jpg|Contents
Image:construction kit p2-3.jpg|Page 2-3
Image:construction kit p4-5.jpg|Page 4-5
Image:construction kit p6-7.jpg|Page 6-7
Image:construction kit p8-9.jpg|Page 8-9
Image:construction kit p10-11.jpg|Page 10-11
Image:construction kit p12-13.jpg|Page 12-13
Image:construction kit p14-15.jpg|Page 14-15
Image:construction kit p16-17.jpg|Page 16-17
Image:construction kit p18-19.jpg|Page 18-19
Image:construction kit p20-21.jpg|Page 20-21
Image:construction kit p22-23.jpg|Page 22-23
Image:construction kit p24-25.jpg|Page 24-25
Image:construction kit p26-27.jpg|Page 26-27
Image:construction kit p28-29.jpg|Page 28-29
Image:construction kit p30-31.jpg|Page 30-31
Image:construction kit p32-33.jpg|Page 32-33
Image:construction kit p34-35.jpg|Page 34-35
Image:construction kit p36-37.jpg|Page 36-37
Image:construction kit p38-39.jpg|Page 38-39
Image:construction kit p40-41.jpg|Page 40-41
Image:construction kit p42-43.jpg|Page 42-43
Image:construction kit p44-45.jpg|Page 44-45
Image:construction kit p46-47.jpg|Page 46-47
Image:construction kit p48-49.jpg|Page 48-49
</gallery>

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