At the beginning there was darkness... Not really :-) I can hardly remember that once upon a time there was a computer called VC64 - manufactured by Commodore.
This amazing "thing" hit my home at Xmas 1984 (as far as I could remember). At this time I had to use a tape to store a "program". Hey I am sure everybody can remember of those times.
I do not know in which year exactly - but the neighbor son Kai and I read in the German C64 Magazine about a contest. The looked for a self written computer game and the price for the winner where 33.333,- DM.
Hey what a tempting offer. So Kai and I sit together and developed the Idea of "Robots Night". Before we started to plot some charts we had to found a Company name (I do not have to mention here, that this took much more time than thinking about the content of the game). So anyhow - we came up with this name EMAC. A shortcut - and it's to embarrassing to say for what these four Letters stand for.
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We started the developing of the Game. Kai as the programer had to develop certain tools first. Beside a great sprite editor (which could handle almost every animation) he gave me a "plug in" for Paint Magic. With that plug in I was able to modify the third background color (so a graphic would be saved as 42 Blocks).
The game includes 15 levels, digitalized speech, a two player option and a sound track [composed by M.L. (he does not like to be indexed by search robots - to keep in privacy - his name could be read in the screenshot)]. I just can remember tat we spend a lot of time (summertime) in our dark rooms. Kai was programing and I fight against that VIC - few colors - few pixels. When we started we thought about a mixture between "Mission Impossible" and "Castle of Dr.Creep". Finally we both were satisfied with the result - we did it ! (I do not have to say, that we could not be 100% unbiased.
That's how all this started. I do not have to say, that there where never announced a winner of the contest. When you like you can download the game with an C64 Emulator from this Site.
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EA's F1 Series
