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- Six months ago, I was visiting a friend who had just come back from
- the USA and had purchased some Amiga software while he was there.
- One of the programs he showed me was a language called "AMOS".
- It was love at first sight. I spent the next two weeks at his house
- programming in that new language. The idea that it was as easy as
- BASIC and included most of the run time libraries simply made it
- a very attractive new toy for a C programmer such as myself.
- The one who didn't like the idea was my friend who couldn't work on
- his Amiga because of me, which resulted in me being thrown physically
- out of the house. While I was rolling down the stairs, I could
- still hear him shout: "If you wanna program in AMOS, get it for
- yourself!"
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- So, that's exactly what I did.
-
- One of the main drawbacks of being an AMOS fanatic in Israel is that
- you can't find people to talk and exchange ideas with. We don't have
- many Amiga users around, not to talk about AMOS users, and the closest
- place I could lay my hands on some code was about 4 hours flight away,
- 20 days by snail mail, at the AMOS PD library in the United Kingdom.
- That's how the Amoner PD project came to life. Why not create a
- good PD magazine over the BitNet/InterNet??? Surely I could find
- myself some AMOS users between those huge amounts of universities and
- colleges that are connected to bitnet. It was true. I found the
- first AMOS user two days after that. A Systems Engineer named Mike
- in the United States. Then Paul, from Australia. Those were my first
- two AMOS pen-pals. They are also the main distributors for this disk.
-
- I hope that the Amoner project will last and that can only happen if
- you, the AMOS user, will help us with code and articles. Read about
- Amoner Policy to learn what you can do to help. We wanna see you here,
- whoever you are.
-
- Finally, I hope you'll enjoy this disk as much as I enjoyed editing
- it, and help us make it grow and expand.
-
- G. Broner
- Editor.
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