I tried to keep up with him but I never could - what took him 15 minutes to code took me a day. Ondrej was always the smarter one, recalls Marek modestly. The duo soon began to enjoy the process of making games more than they did playing them and soon realised that they'd found their calling.
We were probably the only users of that type of computer in the entire country at the time, and the only thing we could do with it was to learn how to program its built-in BASIC language. But the only thing we were concerned with was that we hadn't any games for it - and we really wanted to play games badly.
How it got into our home in those old communist days is another story, winks Marek. And to them, this was one Western commodity that was even more valuable than a pair of Levi's. No, there were far more important events unfolding around them, events that would soon result in them being in possession of a Texas Instruments 99/4 home computer with a 3.3MHz processor and a full 16KB of RAM. Not that Marek or elder brother Ondrej could give a toss that the Politburo had just selected Mikhail Gorbachev as the new leader of the Communist Party. While the rest of us were glued to EastEnders or fiddling with transforming robots, the youth that would later found Czech developer Bohemia Interactive Studio was behind the Iron Curtain, unaware that things were about to change forever. "This step will not only avoid potential confusion amongst users and the wider gaming public, but it will also preserve what is now a classic PC game for years to come as it could no longer be available under its original name."Ĭodemasters has since released two further Operation Flashpoint titles - Dragon Rising and Red River - without the involvement of Bohemia, who have worked on Arma.1985 was clearly an important year for Marek Spanel. "After all these years of continuous support and improvements we are delighted to be able to unite our lineup of military simulators for PC under the Arma brand," said Bohemia CEO, Marek Spanel. The game will be released through "various online stores in the near future." "All existing users of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and the Game of the Year Edition are entitled to download and install Arma: Cold War Assault at no charge," reads the news on Bohemia's website. Subtitled Cold War Assault, the re-release comes after the original release from publisher Codemasters was "discontinued." It'll also come with the Resistance expansion. Bohemia Interactive's announced it'll re-release the original Operation Flashpoint under the Arma brand.
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