AMOS BASIC

AMOS Basic (AM- stands for Amiga) is a variant of the BASIC programming language developed for Amiga computers , which was developed in 1990 by Francois Lionet and published by Mandarin Software .

Two extensions were added in 1992 : "AMOS 3D" (with commands and tools for 3D programming) and "AMOS - The Compiler". The compiler creates independently executable programs from AMOS Basic programs , usually executed by interpreters , which do not require an interpreter.

At the end of 1992 "AMOS Professional" was published as a further version.

The source code of Amos is available for download from the company Clickteam (one of the founders is Francois Lionet ) (see web links).

One of the features of this BASIC dialect is the integrated scripting language "AMAL" ( AM OS A nimation L anguage) with which one sprite to animate (computer graphics) in parallel with the normal program and may control.

history

AMOS is a descendant of STOS BASIC for the Atari ST and was created in 1990.

So that the animation of sprites could be simplified, AMOS contains the animation language AMOS Animation Language (AMAL), a compiled sprite scripting language which runs independently of the AMOS BASIC program. It was possible to control the screen and "rainbow" effects using AMAL scripts.

After the original version of AMOS, Europress released the AMOS Compiler and two other versions of the language, namely Easy AMOS, a simplified version of the language for beginners, and AMOS Professional, an expanded version of the language with more functions.

AMOS has been largely used to create multimedia software, video games, and educational software.

The language achieved minor successes within the Amiga community and was particularly popular with beginners.

software

Software written with AMOS BASIC contains:

• Miggybyte
• Scorched tanks
• Games from Vulcan Software
• The Amiga version of Ultimate Domain from Microids
• Extreme violence
• Jetstrike, a commercial game by Rasputin Software

See also

• STOS BASIC (ST- stands for Atari-ST)

Web links

• http://clickteam.com/eng/downloadcenter.php?i=58 - Info and source code download from clickteam.com
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamos/ - XAmos, an interpreter for AMOS ( open source )
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaamos/ - JAmos, a Java based interpreter for AMOS ( open source )
• http://alvyn.sourceforge.net/ - Alvyn, another interpreter for AMOS ( Open Source )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Computers. December 8, 2010, accessed May 18, 2020 .