Serious / Programming - Language · 1987

STOS - The Game Creator

Published by Terrific Software · Developed by Jawx

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Information

Genre: Programming - Language
Language: Machine Language
Controls: Keyboard, Mouse
Resolution: Low, Medium, High
ST Type: ST, STe, 0.5MB
Programmer(s): Sotiropoulos, Constantin, Lionet, François
Dump: Missing dump(s)
Year: 1987
Publisher: Terrific Software
Developer: Jawx
Country: USA
License: Commercial

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Rating: 8.2/10 · Votes: 25 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 15,139

Ads (2)

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Article (3)

News

News

Tips (9)

STOS Kurssi · ST-VieSTi · Quarter 4, 1990

Trivia (3)

Awards

STOS was the world's first non-game title to take the number one spot in UK's Gallup software sales chart history. And all this after being just one week in the shops!
(Source: ST Amiga Format issue 5)

Charts

Top UK ST charts position: 1 (11/1988)
Months on charts: 8 between 11/1988 - 8/1991

Sales

STOS BASIC had sold 160 000 copies by August 1991
Source: ST Format issue 25

Book / Magazine Reviews (3)

ST / Amiga Format · October, 1988 · Rating: 5/5

ST Action · November, 1988

Trioposti · 4, 1989

Comments (1)

Pete Davison — 25 Feb 2019
Fantastic piece of software, hugely expandable too. The easy-to-learn nature of BASIC coupled with some extremely powerful tools for manipulating graphics, sounds and, with expansions, samples and even 3D graphics. The "Game Creator" moniker sets expectations that this package can't *quite* keep -- you still need to do actual programming, even if it is in a simple language like BASIC -- but the included accessories make things like creating sprites, maps and music a breeze. You just need to figure out what to do with them! Later succeeded by Clickteam's Klik and Play/Games Factory/Multimedia Fusion series for Windows PC, which ditched the programming in favour of a nearly-all-in-one drag and drop solution.