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From: "Marco Eberhardt" <SA437@utb.shv.hb.se>
Organization: University of Boras
To: "John F. Rodgers" <73654.3452@compuserve.com>, Amos-List@access.digex.net
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 14:23:43 MET-1MEST
Subject: Re: Another New Guy
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> Another "New Guy" on the list... Everyone knows everyone else, right? Right,
> so I'll say a few things about myself and then get on to a short list of
> questions.
>
> My first computer: Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P (1980), 4K RAM, 8K Microsoft
> BASIC in ROM. I never could get enough of that PEEKing and POKEing!... Anyone
> else have one of these classics? I still have mine... Other systems included
> TRS-80 Color Computer (It could multitask!), IBM compatibles (They could not!).
> Along the way I picked up Turbo Basic, and I've made a few inroads with C.
> Tried to learn structures and pointers, and other indirect programming methods.
It's good to have the old ones left... I don't have.. :(
>
> My now computer: Amiga 500 (1990), 9 Megs RAM, WB 2.04, huge(!) 80 Meg Hard
> Drive. Got myself into Videotitling and animation stuff. Picked up SAS C 5.0
> (kind of confusing), and tried to learn Amiga System Programming (way indirect
> programming)! Got Amos Professional + Compiler last summer, and now I'm PEEKing
> and POKEing again! Finally going to get my fill of that dangerous stuff!
>
> I have enjoyed many of the archived AmosLists. Several questions I have had
> were addressed in the List. Any stupid questions I might ask haven't been on
> the List in 4 months (or maybe a week ago, not archived yet...), so I'll just
> ask away!
>
> 1. Bug Report
>
> I found a bug(?) in the Interface command DIgit. The value returned, if
> negative, when converted to a string interprets the minus sign as a 3 digit
> number (253, or something like that), so for example, entering a -11 in a DIgit
> zone when converted to a string becomes: 25311 (or whatever that 3 digit number
> is...). Is anyone else aware of this?
>
> The Global command won't work if there are quotation marks. For example, Global
> A, or Global X() work fine, but Global "*", or Global "AnyString" generates a
> Syntax Error.
>
> 2. You guys love to hate AMOS! For a while, you had me scared half to death
> that AMOS would be utterly useless to develop with... However, I asked one
> fairly prominent List member and he reassured me that most of the errors, bugs,
> frustrations, and gray hairs were related to extra extensions and AMOS code
> which pushes the system to the limits. If I don't need real speed, and keep it
> simple, AMOS will compile good code that will run on most any Amiga. Is this
> really, truly the case? I sure hope so... If I don't need to use C; I don't
> want to hassle with it.
>
> 3. 3D Extension. With AMOS Pro I received a 3D extension, and nothing in the
> documentation about using it. Do I need another program (AMOS 3D)? I tried
> running a tutorial program on 3D and although the Editor properly recognized and
> formatted the commands, it couldn't run properly. Is there anything (file,
> program, expert user, etc.) which can help? I really could use those 3D
> commands...
Well.. about this, It's the 3D extension that you for some years ago
could bought in the shops, the original 3D package, this extension is
for use with AmosPro... Nothing else, So if you would like to get the
hold of it, You then have to buy the original! That's it... :-)
>
> It's good to be on the List. I look forward to many informative messages!
