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- --- R E A D M E ! ---
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- As I've never met another AMOS user before, I thought I would include an ASCII
- file through which I could talk to other Amosites, so here it is!
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- A Note On My Programming
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- I try to write well structured and understandable code, but sometimes I get
- carried away just trying to make some part of a program I've written work, and
- the listing appears a tangled mess of commands and meaningless variables, with
- few remarks. I hope this isn't too much of a problem for fellow programmers.
- I, myself, have found it hard to comprehend other people's code which is why I
- rarely look at (and never use) it, instead just bunging the disk in and running
- the program. I feel this is due to everyone seemingly prefering a different
- form of structure (a factor often determined by individual programming hist-
- ories) and having different methods of constructing labels and variable names.
- It takes time to get used to these differing dialects, and often having to make
- these adaptions is simply off-putting.
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- About Me And My Problems (yawn...)
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- I've had AMOS since Christmas 1990 (has it been that long!) this disk's worth of
- programs is all I have to show for it. Sigh! I guess I've always been just too
- ambitious with my projects. Anyhow, one game I started, but got stuck on (a
- suped up version of that Nintendo CBS ColecoVision game of the early 80's,
- "Ladybug") is also on this disk (there are two versions) along with the mapper
- program I use to make the levels (the map window is so small because it was
- initially created for a larger, scrolling version of "Ladybug"). I thought that
- I might as well fill up some empty disk space with anything else I had that
- could be of interest to others, so I also put two IFF pictures I've drawn in the
- Pics drawer. One is of a character from the Japanese movie, "Akira", and the
- other is an altered version of the "Twentieth Century Fox" logo (For my sister's
- birthday two years ago, I made a video up for her, heading it with this picture
- which was animated on Deluxe Paint III to have swinging spotlights and exploding
- fire crackers!) which you could change for yourself (I traced it as well as I
- could from a TV set and because I didn't have a monitor then, the colours don't
- blend that well).
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- The extensions I have are AMOS 3D (which I bought in early 1992 and have yet to
- utilise), D-Sam (from "Amiga Computing" magazine) and the Compiler (which I just
- got from the cover of "CU Amiga" with AMOS 1.35 for just $10.80!). I had tried
- to make a bootable disk with all these programs and a menu selector myself, but
- I was having problems with the menu program not loading up any uncompiled progs.
- I have compiled some programs as AMOS files, so you'll need the compiler exten-
- sion to use them anyway!
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- I would like to buy TOME, but I feel I'd better make use of AMOS 3D first.
- Anyone out there who knows how I can create a 3D world of rooms and buildings
- that I can walk through without the 3D drawing becoming corrupt (Ah, to create
- my own Freescape adventure masterpiece!), or who has a knowledge of gyroscopic
- physics and so a procedure to change an objects attitude through its yaw and
- roll, not just angles A, B and C, please contact me - I would very much apprec-
- iate the help!
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- My Future Involvement With The PD Library
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- I am working on, what I would call, one of the greatest adventure parsers to
- be seen in the AMOS world (but then I would say that, wouldn't I?). It's based
- on the parser used in Infocom adventures (it allows for multiple objects and
- commands, allows you to command other characters (e.g. Say to Farmer, "Give me
- the pitchfork."), it guesses what you mean if your commands are ambiguous and
- you need only enter an adjective at the next prompt if there are multiple
- objects around of the same sort to which you could be refering to). I'm going
- to try and make inputting all the neccesary data as easy and friendly as poss-
- ible, probably by using my input procedures! Which reminds me: Lookout for my
- next collection of input procedures, allowing for word processing type window
- text input, and scrolling list windows as used by the file selector (which I
- will attempt to create an attractive version of).
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- Want To Contact Me?
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- No? Well I don't really blame you. But why not give a poor unemployed soul a
- hand with his programming before he does something rash. Maybe I can help you
- out too! All mail will be answered! So, any programmers (especially in
- Western Australia) who would like to contact me, I can be reach at the following
- address and phone number:
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- Address: Mr Glenn N Babic
- 99 Jones Street
- STIRLING WA 6021
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- Phone: (09) 349 0234
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- I hope there's something amongst these programs you like. Until next time...
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- - Glenn N Babic
- Reg. #1646
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