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EXTENSIONS,EXTENSIONS AND MORE EXTENSIONS
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BY ANDY DOBINSON
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Welcome to what is now going to be a regular section in this diskmag and
as you might have guessed this section will be covering all those lovely
extensions, past and present with bug reports, hints and tips, news on
forth coming extensions and reviews that work on both amos classic and
amos pro.
Well for those that dont already know, Amos pro is appearing on the
january edition (dec 15) of amiga formats cover disk, which as far as
I`m concerned will do no end of good the the amos scene but it be might
be gutter for all those people who just went out and bought it in the
shops.
Now I dont know about you but, in the last month or so a lot of my old
contacts who deserted the amos scene in favour of blitz (hiss,spit)
have reappeared, which is fab but I wonder why, cause I thought blitz
was suppoessed to be the best thing since sliced bread !.So armed with my
trusty phone I made alot of phone calls and if I said that amos can now
run faster than blitz you`d probaly think that I was a nutter ?. well i`m
not and the reason being is that there are a few new extensions coming
out very soon which are quite simply amazing.
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POWER BOBS
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First up is an extension from POWER SOFT/MAGICKNIGHT SOFTWARE and is
called quite simply POWER BOBS and, it has to be said speeds up your bobs
by quite an alarming rate and now you can put more bobs on the screen
in one frame than blitz. I have spent alot of time converting the majority
of source I have aquired over the years and a majority of the games ive
tried have all started to run at a constant 50 frames a second, i`m
very impressed with this and I class this along with the excellent turbo
v2 as the two best extensions ever. project x in amos no problem,alien
breed no problem, infact any arcade game is now possible. This extension
is a MUST for all amos users.
Now the bad news, as of the 1st of december, power bobs is not yet ready for
release but, being the kind people that we are, we have managed to get you
a demo version which is somewhere on these 3 disks just so you can see the
speed increase yourself and if you would like further information or would
like to resevre a copy simply send a S.A.E to the following address:
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MAGICKNIGHT SOFTWARE
19 NORMAN ROAD
ILFORD
ESSEX
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and when POWER BOBS is ready you will be notified and of course we will also
let you know in this section. There are still a load more of commands to be
added some of which are rather tasty indeed. So people think amos is
dead and buried ha,ha grab your copy of amos and the turbo extension and
power bobs and wave it in front of their faces and blow a huge raspberry ?.
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AGA........?
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As you may have already read in the news section , I recently rang up
europress to find out what was happening with an aga extension and was
told the following "Europress software ARE NOT releasing an aga extension
nor will there be any further updates to amos classic or amos pro.".
Well my personal feelings towards this are, as you can imagine not very
favourable and I think its a missed opportunity but, all is not lost.
An AGA extension is on its way from a third party developer and will be
hopefully released very soon and I am hopeing to have some more news
and/or a review for the next issue (5) so be patient, it is coming
trust me.
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COLOUR PROCEDURES
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Somewhere on these 3 disks is a program called COLOURS. now for those of
you who own the original craft this will not be of any use to you but,
for those who don't it basicly allows you to do all maner of things with
palettes and colours, ie palette banks, colour manipulation, colour
speading etc and is fully documented. why did I write it ?. quite simply
because I was bored ,so there.
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USER INPUT
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If you have any hints and tips, source code ,bugs or a juicy bit of
gossip for any extension that works with amos/amospro or you are having
some trouble with one, just write to me or pick up the phone:
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ANDY DOBINSON
28 WINDERMERE AVENUE
HULLBRIDGE
HOCKLEY
ESSEX
SS5 6JR
OR TEL: 0374 921863 AFTER 6PM
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E-MAIL : Soon as ive worked out how to use my modem.. its a bloody
nightmare.
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NEXT ISSUE
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For issue 5 you can look forward to rather tasty selection of source code
for the turbo extension and a review of a new intuition extension plus
loads of gossip,news and if things work out something which is very
special indeed, and a huge competition. Plus, I will be demostrating how
games like alien breed, project x, alladin etc can be done in amos
all running at a cool 50 fps. Now some of you think im joking and that
it is impossible, well, I have to disagree and I shall prove it next issue.
so now you have got no excuse not to go and buy the next issue of the
worlds best amos diskmag.
have a wicked crimbo and new year and see you in the next issue.
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Andy Dobinson (pinkie)
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P.S special thanx must go to the following people for all their support
during 1994. it was much appreciated.
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shiney shoes, king ken, megapower, brian bell, nitram, onion, the little
old lady (ouch!), sandy, mad mick, carol (its not mine), mel the stud
and little piggy pat and last and most definitly least my ex boss who
so kindly made me redundant