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About this issue
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Welcome to the third and final Shareware version of Extreme AMOS.
This newer engine see's several changes from the last issue, and are
all for the better I hope.
As you will be able to see, this engine is very similar to the
very first issue's engine. This is MY code, and I have never seen the
source code from the engine Carl wrote, which apparently seemed to be
the only contribution he ever made to the magazine, as he is now
excluded from the team.
I have tried to customize the icons as best I can, although I am
not a brilliant graphics artist as you can probably see. I think it
gives the whole magazine a feel of it really being worked on by the
programmer (it sure took a lot of time to plan and write!). I have
tried to draw a picture in each icon that best represents the article
it is over, so that you can almost see what all the articles are
without having to read the text underneath.
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I have also implemented colour text into the reader. Everybody
else seems to be doing it, so I thought that I had better keep up with
the times and do the same. Still, it looks nice. I have also made the
reader display pictures which have been squashed with a relatively new
AMOS graphics compacter, named Squidger. It was written by a good
friend of mine, Paul Burkey, and crunches pictures down a lot better
than the standard SPACK command does. You can save the files it
produces in PP form, which crunches it down even further. The only
drawback with the system is the amount of time it takes to unpack the
files, as you will no doubtedly see when it comes on to viewing a
picture, like the one in the "Asshole of the month" section for
example. See the "New Reviews" section for ways of obtaining the
Squidger program from Paul.
The entire magazine is now in NTSC form, as some readers from
abroad had a little trouble in running the program in PAL form. The
picture viewing routines in the reader will still show full PAL
screens, but it will chop them down a bit when it comes back into
using the system. Hopefully, the NTSC form will stay in providing I
don't get too many complaint letters !!!
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The adverts and messages sections have been improved a lot too.
Because of the new graphics compaction routines, I am now able to fit
lot's of IFF adverts and messages onto the disk without having to
worry too much about running out of space on the disk. The reader has
a screen size of 20 lines, each holding 79 characters, which gives the
perfect parameters for designing a text or IFF advert, and it takes up
hardly any space on the disk at all.
This issue also see's a heck of a lot more articles than the
previous 2 issues. They are all crunched using Crunchmania to provide
you with as many different articles as I possibly can squeeze on the
disk. It should keep you busy for a few hours at least !!
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[Andrew "Mushroom" Kellett]
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