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Does anyone remember this?  |
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| Talk about a blast from the past. I think you can still get this from Amazon.co.uk but it's not much good in this day and age unless you still have Windows 95/98 and DOS. I use to own this, but I think a got rid of it a few years ago as it was just cluttering the place up. |
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lol definitely a blast from the past...another blast from the past:  |
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| I used to use DIV - excellent at the time. I created loads of games and remakes using it. When it died I moved to Blitz3D and then others, but there'll always be a soft, gooey spot in my heart for Div. Of course, it still exists unofficially in Fenix, Gemix and Bennu. Good times. Good times. |
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DiV Games Studio!? you can't expect to get any good use of it these days. DiV2 had 3D support if I remember correctly.... Very hard to find it at the USA web stores. lol checked the mail every day and remember having to wait a month to unwrap the peckerhead! lol |
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I remember this fondly: Made so many games back then using AMOS Pro... |
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| I've tried Gemix Studio while ago, which comes with compatibility with Div Studio and is free for personal, here's the div examples DL: http://www.gemixstudio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=32 And the releases are here: http://www.gemixstudio.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=64 And BennuGD is also a fork of Div/Fenix pretty mature. |
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| I liked DIV Game Studio. I made quite a few games in it. Here are a couple. --DUEL--  Octanks  |
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| Yo! the day that came though the door is fondly remembered :D |
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| I remember seeing Div Game Studio reviewed in PC Format or something many years ago. I really wanted to buy it but I couldn't find it in any high street shops and I didn't have a credit card to buy it by mail order. |
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| Excellent tool. I still have it, complete with packaging and manual! |
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| Yes I also liked DIV. I began trying to make games with it. :) |
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| I had AMOS and AMOS pro, good memories. The AMOS 3D package wasn't worth anything but still... |
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| DIV game studio was excellent and works great with DOSBox |
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| Yes, I did have lots and lots of fun with Div2. And when I think about it now, it had some very very nice ideas in an actors-like OO design that could be a very good way to design a modern actor's based game oriented programming language. |
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| Yo! the day that came though the door is fondly remembered Me too. It had arrived when i got home from work, and I had to walk to the doctors cos my foot hurt - turned out to be a strained tendon. 1.5 mile round trip and it seemed to take forever! |
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| I also had AMOS PRO (started with EasyAMOS, then moved to AMOS and finally PRO+COMPILER). I created many demos and small games with it, some of which inspired larger games and demos later in other languages. Sadly I let my Amiga go and all my media went with it - I really regret that now as there was a LOT of stuff that I'll never replace. Funnily enough, I had Blitz for the Amiga too, but couldn't get into it after using AMOS. How different was that Blitz to BlitzBasic/3D on pc? |
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| STOS for me, lovely little basic with the ability easily add your own commands. You can find the source for it here http://stos.atari.st/dload_stos.htm Amazingly written in 100% 68000 assembly! |
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| Oh yeah I've got both DIV 1 and 2. DIV 2 was a horribly buggy release though. By the time that was released in English I had already moved on from Windows 98. All in all it was a nice development environment. I believe even today its successors are being used quite a lot in Spain. The Spanish community always was rather big. Or at least that's the impression I always got. Oddball: I actually remember those games. I don't think I played the second one, but the tank game I did. Cool stuff. |
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| Oddball. Those games are great. Amazing what you can do with that old stuff isn't it!? :D |
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| Thanks guys. Just realised those games are well over ten years old now. |
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| @Steve Elliott STOS! OMG, I remember that. The good old ST days :D - Rich - |
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| @Steve Elliott STOS! OMG, I remember that. The good old ST days :D Hell yeah! :D Didn't think too much of the language - but the sprite and gaming side of it was really good. A nice package. Exciting times back then, I remember being wowed by dungeon master and a near perfect version of the arcade star wars game for a start. |
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| ^:D I had FTL out to a Atari club (SDACE) meeting. They were so cool, remember 'OIDS'. I used to sell at Atari trade shows all across the US, Canada and even the UK and Germany. Was a time of it all being new and fun. :D - Rich - |
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| Oids was a cool game. Well yes, the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit graphics was a massive jump so very exciting times. Plus the ST had built-in in midi, so pop stars were using them too. |
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| ^Oh yes. I had Donny Osmond call me on the phone asking how to use his Atari and midi, he had a contract with Atari at the time. I used to do a lot for Atari back then. - Rich - |
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| Cool he was being interviewed by Piers Morgan recently...seems a really nice guy...sad that Atari died - and the Atari name was sold off. |
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| Ah i was a blitz basic 2.1 kinda guy made loads of games in that even a rudimentary lan setup between four amigas :) |
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| Anyone still interested? http://div-arena.co.uk/ |
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| This was my first: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=adventure+construction+set&client=ms-android-telstra-au&source=lnms&prmd=vsin&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMhOnvgfrQAhUEurwKHQoLBuAQ_AUICSgD&biw=360&bih=615 'Adventure Construction Set' |
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| @TeaBoy, wow, there is a good remake of Donkey Kong on there, I remember pumping 20p's into that game. |
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| It's now open sourced (for a while actually), with all ports and modes. https://github.com/DIVGAMES/DIV-Games-Studio Sould be very helpful for old Div developers. I really hope it supports Unicode, but it's not in the roadmap yet. |
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| I've never used it, but look - games of a good quality everywhere. nice looking website and developers that are open to suggestions and changes. Compare to blitz... nuff said |
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