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F1 Software has always been linked with Amos. There are some good reasons for this. Firstly, there is me, Steve bye. I have always liked and used Amos so naturally have an interest in it, this is why F1 has most of the best Amos extensions for sale. Many of our titles are written in Amos, F1 onced produced AmosZine, one of the better Amos disk mags, F1 are the only licensed vendor of the Amos Pro Compiler, I edited the Amos column for Amiga Shopper for three seasons and have released a few Amos written utils, a game (Punter) and a beginners guide to Amos. I think that's enough reasons, don't you?
The thought of PCOS (Amos for the PC) was exciting though so many Amos users patiently waited and dreamed of buying a PC and PCOS and converting all their source and making huge wads of money into the bargain. The dream of dual platform Amos releases was really cool. Until one day Europress Software let the world know that Lionets next product would be 'Click 'N' Play' a GUI games creator. Strange, we all thought, must be a BASIC? Alas no. Lionet has left all that behind him to concentrate on what is the PC equivalent of The Shoot-Em-Up-Construction Kit (albeit a lot more versatile). Click 'n' Create is now out and one can only hope that Francois now gets the urge to write PCOS, well we can live in hope, can't we? One can only surmise that Lionet or Europress must think PC owners are not intelligent enough to learn BASIC, or more likely that a small outfit like Europress (compared to MicroSoft that is) wouldn't stand a chance of beating the PC's premier BASIC, Visual Basic. Personally I think the PC is crying out for an Amos clone. Visual Basic costs a bomb for the Pro version and the other BASIC'S on offer are slightly crap to say the least. If I sound a little bitter, I am not, I am upset that the great potential Amos Pro had has been lost. If only it had been upgraded to AGA with proper Intuition support and decent screen modes and real multitasking (and a lot of bug fixes of course) we would of been sitting pretty at least until the next generation of Amiga's come out, if they ever do? Still, all is not lost because luckily Amos can accept extension commands to add all these features, it is not quite as good as having them built into the system, but it is better than nothing.
All the above titles are detailed fully in The F1 catalogue disk
Using AGA without an Extension
Storing executables inside Amos
Did you know?
Improving Amos
On my last Amos stint for Amiga Shopping Trolley (as I like to call it) I teamed up with ace coder and professional graphic artist Malcolm Lavery, and he wrote a great little Lottery Predictor, it is quite impressive.
you can download the source for Lotto if you want.
Programs & Tips
Aminet Amos Dir
Extreme Amos + other Amos stuff
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There is an AMOS Newsgroup alt.religion.amos I think, but because of the
stupid name peple shy away from it or don`t realise what it is.
There used to be a FIDO echo though, I haven't used BBS for about a year
now so I am out of touch.
If you have an Amos article you want put on this page to share with other users I would be only too pleased to bung it on here. Space is limited though, email.