Graphical User Interface

A "Mac or Windows like" interface...

Mostly with a "mouse pointer" and menues.

Also called GUI

This wasn't so well used on Amstrad CPC :

• lack of Mouse :few models existed, not alway compatibles.
• Expensive on CPU ressources or speed : the mouse Pointer is like a sprite and using the Joystick to move it is painfully slow and lack precision.

As a result, Keyboards short cut may be more appropriate on an Amstrad CPC.

But some games used such an interface, but because it was a Joystick instead of a proper mouse... it sucked and was often a source of slow gameplay (See Hero Quest).

GUI Amstrad CPC Games

• Sid Meyer's Pirates! : Joystick pseudo Mouse pointer and menues.
• Hero Quest : a Populous like interface.

GUI Amstrad CPC OS

• SymbOS

Proper Link to CPC related GUI article

History of Graphical User Interface for the Amstrad CPC