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*************** WELCOME TO THE AMOS MC V1.1 Document File ****************
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**************** This Program Was Written By Simon Jewell *****************
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Thankyou for taking time to read this Doc. file for my program, the
AMOS MC V1.1. I finished the program on 8th February 1991 using AMOS V1.2
which I obtained from Amiga Format issue 16. The main features of the AMOS
MC V1.1 are:-
1/ It's sheer ease of use.
2/ Very little disk accessing (Limited to just
loading in the extra keyboard definition and
the Narrator.Device).
3/ Wide variety of shapes and formulas inc.
Circle (Area and Circumference),
Cylinder (Volume),
Rectangle,
Cuboid and
Sphere.
4/ The four basic arithmetic functions
(Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication
and Division ).
5/ There are now no more negative answers
in the Subtraction section.
6/ A ten question system whereby the user does
not need to keep returning to the same section
for just 10 questions.
7/ There is now a section which will give you a
fraction and ask for the percentage of it.
The section uses halves, quarters, fifths and
eighths to keep it simple.
8/ The program will tell you how many answers you
got correct using speech and there is also
much more sound in the program
(not digitised yet!).
The ease of use of this program is due to the fact that all the
commands are typed in using the numeric keypad to the right of the keyboard
being composed of numbers only. The big advantage of this method is that it
avoids any errors from typing a letter instead of a number (it is still
possible to get the error though. Try typing in a really long number and you
should get a message like "Please Redo From Start?" Don't panic though, all
is well and just continue on like normal (I shall try and cut that out
altogether in a later update)). The disk accessing has been kept down to a
minimum by the use of memory banks and, since I have one or two left, I may
use digitised sounds in the other ones (All I need is a sound sampler!).
UPDATES
I have already thought of a great long list of possible extensions and
have implemeted one already (Division). At the time of writing this file,
this is a list of some of the other expansions that could be arriving in
the near future.
1/ Trigonometry (Sine/Cosine/Tangent etc.)
2/ Graphs
3/ Vectors
4/ Ratio
5/ Speed/Time
6/ Algebra - Expansion of formula
Solution of equations
Factorisation of equations
Quatratic Expansion
7/ Transformation - Enlargement
Reflection
Translation (Probably next!)
Rotation
Once I work out how to present these ideas on screen, they should
appear fairly quickly and boost the AMOS MC up to a GCSE suitable product.
Simon Jewell.