CONTACT ADDRESSES AND FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Amos Public Domain Library -------------------------- Brilliant place, tons of disks full of source code you can learn from at a reasonable price. Totally Amos disk magazine is excellent, nice people, great outfit contact Len or Anne Tucker at: 17 Wickfarm Road, St Lawrence Bay Southminster Essex. CM0-7PF TEL/FAX 0621-778804 The Amos Club ------------- I am not a member so I cannot comment. Expect a long wait for a reply though. 1 Lower Moor Whiddon Valley Barnstable Nrth Devon EX32-8NW £12.00 a year to join. Cybornetics ------------ A Public Domain demo group who write lot's of Amos programs for fun and not profit. They are always looking for contacts to swap software and if you ask nicely will help you with coding problems. These are nice people, drop them a line. Rob/Cybornetics, 14 Buckingham Drive Ely Cambs CB6-1DR F1 Licenceware -------------- Sells Licenceware games and utils, written in any language. But you already know that because you bought this disk from there didn`t you? F1 are always keen to look at your new software, so send it in for evaluation and the road to fame and fortune could be yours! Don`t forget to include a stamp and say where you got the address. Also published by F1 is an Amos programmers disk mag called Amoszine. I can't say much because I am the editor. I will just say that our aim at Amoszine is to be the biggest/best and highest value Amos mag around, and I feel we are achieving that write for info. 31 Wellington Road Exeter Devon EX2-9Du Some Amos books --------------- Amiga Games Makers Manual. Stephen Hill Sigma Press ISBN 1-85058-230-0 19.99 This I would recommend as the next step on from this tutorial. It takes a good long look at writing games of all sorts including shoot em ups, adventures, simulations etc. A good read. Mastering Amiga Amos -------------------- Phil South Bruce Smith Books ISBN 1-873308-12-4 19.95 This book is good for hints and tips and learning different techniques, maybe this could be step three in your learning process. At the time of writing there are two more Amos books that have just been published, I don`t know what they are like but here are all the details I can find: Ultimate Amos ------------- Amiga Format 19.95 Check out the adverts in Amiga Format as they wrote and are publishing it. I haven't read it yet. Amos in Education ----------------- Len and Anne Tucker I don`t know anything about this book. Contact Len or Anne at the address given under The Amos P.D Library. As far as I know at the moment these are the only Amiga magazines that are running a regular Amos programming column. Amiga Shopper (Future) ---------------------- Amiga Computing (Europress) ---------------------------- Other magazines do the occasional series so keep an eye out. Keep your eye out for fellow Amos users in disk mags and magazine adverts and write to them to swap hints and source code etc. That must be enough information for you to make your next step, DO IT!!! And remember what Napoleon once said "Whoever stays in their fortress will lose the battle"