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GEL

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GEL is a genetic editor for Creatures and Creatures 2 created by Mike Raiford, first released on 1 January 1999.

Features include:

  • Chemical View - View Genes that affect a certain chemical
  • Loci View - Navigate back through a locus to view the emitter and receptor genes that affect it
  • Organ View - View Genes by thier association with an organ
  • Genome View - View the entire genome, separated by Gene Type
  • Brain View - Modify the physical layout of the brain graphically

GEL was available at Mike's Creatures until it went down. GEL 1.0.1 can be downloaded at Bibbleworld or 3DDownloads. Unfortunately a bug caused it to fail to load on Windows NT/2k/XP; as the source was lost, this problem was thought unfixable until GreenReaper created a patch (only for NT/2k/XP/onwards), which should be extracted into the Windows\System32 folder after installing the main package (overwriting the existing DLL).

GEL 2 fixed this problem, and was intended to be an improvement in general but never got the time it needed to be completed. Rumours persist of a GEL 3, although they have not yet been substantiated.