On 22/01/2013 20:13, JP Hindin wrote:
So back in the early '90s when I was a boy scout
(which is not usually a
good start to a story) we had a camp leader who had a couple of Amigas.
I'm certain one was a 1200, but I'm not sure that's relevant.
At any rate, he had a BASIC-like programming language that allowed very
easy manipulation of images and sound and used it to construct games. The
magic thing was that he would very easily steal tiles, sprites, sounds and
music from _commercial_ games which he could then drop into this language
and manipulate.
Well on the Atari we had STOS and I think on the Amiga there was AMOS
perhaps...
Now, I'm remembering this from across the void of
time, but I remember
being really amazed that he could so easily pull a sprite from a game and
then reuse it.
Did I imagine this, or does someone know what I'm talking about here?
Cheers;
- JP