22 Jan
2013
22 Jan
'13
1 p.m.
* On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:13:27PM -0600, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com>
wrote:
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.
[...]
Hmm, not much to go on, unfortunately. It's more or less a random stab
in the dark, but could it have been ARexx? ARexx was wildly popular on
the Amiga. Try to find some example REXX programs and see if they look
like what you remember.
-Seth