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^3@6T O T A L L Y A M O S .@
^2@6ISSUE 1.@ ^2@6NOVEMBER 1991.@
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^1 Thank you for joining us again for the first 'real' issue of TOTALLY
^1AMOS!
^2 A piece of good news is that ^6TOTALLY AMOS ^2has now been approved by
^2EUROPRESS SOFTWARE, which means that they like it enough to give us
^2some prizes to pass on to you!!!
^7 This issue contains more items to keep you programming in Amos, and
^7hopefully will make you realise that you are not alone with your
^7problems, there are plenty of Amos addicts out there willing to share
^7their knowledge with you.
^1 We have competitions, with prizes that you'll all want to win! For
^1the kids there's a copy of "Paint Me A Story" which is our first
^1commercially released program, kindly donated by Genisoft. For the
^1bigger people there's a chance to win a copy of The Amos Compiler,
^1kindly donated by Europress.
^2 See the competitions section to find out what you have to do.
^7 There are 2 new features in the magazine this issue, you should
^7now be able to print out any article you're reading, but not the
^7index pages, just by pressing `P' on the keyboard. Also, if you have
^7trouble reading the multicolour text, pressing `C' will turn the
^7display to black on grey, which might help you. Some readers with
^7monitors (lucky them!) had trouble reading certain colour
^7combinations, hopefully these have been sorted out, if anyone finds
^7the colours used are still unreadable, we'd apprecaite the news!
^1 The Amos for Kids kicks off properly with a little program that lets
^1you print things on the screen. Please let the kids have a go, we
^1are sure that they'll enjoy making the computer do something rather
^1than alien bashing all the time. The program is over REM'd to take
^1into account the age it's intended for.
^2 Thankyou to those who have written in saying how much they enjoyed
^2the first issue, we hope that you will also enjoy this one.
^2 If there is something that you would like to see changed, then let
^2us know, and we'll see if it is possible to do something about it!
^4 There are more screen effects for you to mess about with, and a
^4routine which creates an alert box to display your messages to the
^4users of your programs, eg Do you really want to Quit Yes No. etc
^4etc. If you've already tried printing this article, then you'll have
^4seen the box asking if you've got your printer ready.
^5 If you've ever wanted to make the characters in your programs
^5communicate with the user by using speech bubbles, then there's a
^5routine for you in the programming section.
^2 Have you seen the Demos by FANATIX in the PD library? Do you want to
^2hear some tips on how they write them? If the answer's 'yes' then
^2read the article written for Totally Amos by JAG. We hope that this
^2will not be the last we hear from him!! (HINT!)
^6 There are two games for you to play, Logger Larry by Aaron
^6Fothergill, written in just 10 AMOS lines, and Puzzle Game by S.
^6Raaiymakers. There are sprites from New Zealander Josh Addison's game
^6Boing and music from Luke Miller.
^4 Just arrived!! Disk from Technical Fred Software delivered today,
^4only just in time for this issue!! The programs were too good to
^4leave till next time, so look in the programming section for a bumper
^4package of program files!
^1 The ^2AMOS PD Library ^1is now heading towards its 350th disk!! Will
^1there be 400 by the time the next issue of Totally Amos is released?
^1That's up to you! Keep sending in your disks!
^2 The ^2Déjà Vu Licensed Software ^2collection has now passed the 50th
^2disk! Sandra Sharkey has seen that the disks get seen by the right
^2people, such as magazine reviewers, and it shows whenever you pick up
^2an Amiga Magazine! If you've seen a copy of the new mag PUBLIC
^2DOMAIN from Future Publishing, you'll know what I mean.
^5 We'd all like to say a big ^3[2T H A N K Y O U ^5[0to Sandra for her efforts
^5over the past year, and wish her every sucess in the future.
^1 I'll leave you now to enjoy the rest of the magazine, but if you're
^1like me, you'll have started to read this from the 'back,' in which
^1case, hope you have enjoyed it!
^3HAPPY PROGRAMMING!!
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