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Jim Sachs
He concentrated on architecture while in colledge, but went to the Air Force to fly C-141 Starlifter cargo planes after graduating.
After that he got into computer graphics through the C64 and then switched to the Amiga when that came out.
Interview: Amazing Computing (1987)
Interview: Amazing Computing (1994)
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown (CDTV)
- Prequel
- Amiga
From Defender of the Crown 2
- From Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
The hand painted map from Defender of the Crown was replaced by a picture that was grabbed from video and touched up.
This was a technique that Jim used more often in his later work to speed up his workflow, because pixeling everything by hand took a lot of time, which was rarely available when developing a game.
This was a technique that Jim used more often in his later work to speed up his workflow, because pixeling everything by hand took a lot of time, which was rarely available when developing a game.
- Defender of the Crown 2 - Day time palette
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown - Day time palette
- IFF
- Prequel
The castle pictures from Defender of the Crown used the same picture but with different color palettes for the day and night time versions.
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- From Defender of the Crown
- Prequel
- Defender of the Crown 2 - Day time palette
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown 2 - Night time palette
- Variation
- Defender of the Crown - Day time palette
- IFF
- Prequel
The castle pictures from Defender of the Crown used the same picture but with different color palettes for the day and night time versions.
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
Jim posted a complete version of the Defender of the Crown 2 ending on his personal YouTube channel.
- Amiga
From Defender of the Crown 2
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown
- Prequel
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown
- Prequel
- Defender of the Crown
- Amiga
Interestingly two of the four maidens were left out for Defender of the Crown 2, with Lady Rebecca being one of them.
- Defender of the Crown
- Amiga
Interestingly two of the four maidens were left out of Defender of the Crown 2, with Lady Rosalind being one of them.
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown
- Prequel
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown
- Prequel
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Amiga
- Defender of the Crown
- Prequel
- Amiga
This image belonged to a sequence where the Nautilus can be seen sinking slowly in the sunset. Jim captured this sequence from a VHS recording that he had made from the game demo during development and posted it on his personal YouTube channel.
Used in the "Amiga Dealer" demo. It was produced by Commodore to promote Amigas that were on display in shops. This image was shown in the "Amiga Features" part.
Printed in Amiga Format September 1989 - Page 65
Printed in Amiga Format September 1989 - Page 65
Used in the "Amiga Dealer" demo. It was produced by Commodore to promote Amigas that were on display in shops.
This image was shown in the "Art & Graphics" part.
This image was shown in the "Art & Graphics" part.
Used in the "Amiga Dealer" demo. It was produced by Commodore to promote Amigas that were on display in shops.
This image was shown in the "Video" part.
This image was shown in the "Video" part.
- Variation
Use in Amiga demo
Used in the "Amiga Dealer" demo. It was produced by Commodore to promote Amigas that were on display in shops.[br]This image was shown in the "Music" part.
Used in the "Amiga Dealer" demo. It was produced by Commodore to promote Amigas that were on display in shops.
This image was shown in the "Entertainment" part.
This image was shown in the "Entertainment" part.
Used in the "Amiga Dealer" demo. It was produced by Commodore to promote Amigas that were on display in shops.
This image was shown in the "Education" part.
Interestingly there was also a version of this image that was used for the "Amiga Companion" book by Rob Peck. The biggest difference between the two was the peacock on the key, that was replaced by the Amiga rainbow check logo.
The Amiga Companion version is lowres-interlaced, which leads me to think that it was created first and the Amiga Demo version was downscaled to fit with the other images.
This image was shown in the "Education" part.
Interestingly there was also a version of this image that was used for the "Amiga Companion" book by Rob Peck. The biggest difference between the two was the peacock on the key, that was replaced by the Amiga rainbow check logo.
The Amiga Companion version is lowres-interlaced, which leads me to think that it was created first and the Amiga Demo version was downscaled to fit with the other images.
Used in the "Amiga Dealer" demo. It was produced by Commodore to promote Amigas that were on display in shops.
This image was shown in the "Products" part.
This image was shown in the "Products" part.
- Amiga
- Amiga
This is the official boot screen from Commodore's CDTV Amiga. It differs a bit from the Anim version that is circulating the web, possibly because of size constraints within the boot roms.
It doesn't work that well as gif animation as most browsers don't play it back at the correct speed.
It doesn't work that well as gif animation as most browsers don't play it back at the correct speed.
- Variation
Commodore C64C, 1802 Monitor, 1541C Floppy Drive
Showing a rendition of Wayne Schmidt's 1987 C64 artwork called "Serene".
- Variation
The variation with rider is a little strange, since the motorcycle seems to be slightly color reduced, despite the rider himself not really needing/using any additional colors. I currently can't say if Jim did this variation himself or for what this version was used for.
- Amiga
- Variation
This is an office scene that was included in Ports of Call. It matches the Office 3D image closely, but uses fewer colors an has less details.
This image looks like an extended version of an image used in the game Ports of Call.
Most notable changes are the larger screen area and the increase in colors used.
Most notable changes are the larger screen area and the increase in colors used.
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Variation
Jim re-used the title picture for Ports of Call in his abandoned [link=/game/20000LeaguesUnderTheSea.html]20.000 Leagues under the Sea[/link] project.
The german magazine Amiga Magazin did an article on Jim Sachs in their August 1989 issue. They previewed a screen from the project, while it was still in development, and you can clearly see the same sky, mountains and buildings.
The german magazine Amiga Magazin did an article on Jim Sachs in their August 1989 issue. They previewed a screen from the project, while it was still in development, and you can clearly see the same sky, mountains and buildings.
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Amiga
- Amiga
- WIP
The work in progress is interesting as it shows several changes to the final image from the game.
Roger's head and left hand was changed, as was the expression in his face.
If you look closely it is also visible that the copyright message was moved from the center left side to the lower left side, since the text was colored black instead of removing it properly from the brick wall.
The small artifacts scattered around the brick wall are mostly my fault, because I had to reconstruct the wip image from a badly rescaled version that I found on the internet.
Roger's head and left hand was changed, as was the expression in his face.
If you look closely it is also visible that the copyright message was moved from the center left side to the lower left side, since the text was colored black instead of removing it properly from the brick wall.
The small artifacts scattered around the brick wall are mostly my fault, because I had to reconstruct the wip image from a badly rescaled version that I found on the internet.
- Variation
I'm not sure if this splash screen is genuine, but I've stumbled across this multiple times. It's definitely not by Jim Sachs, but interesting, nonetheless.
