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AMOS HISTORY
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GENISIS
STOS was the earliest incarnation of the AMOS programming language that we
know today. Written by a frenchman called Francois Lionet.
STOS was for the Atari S.T and was met with critical acclaim when launched
in Britain during 1988 by Mandarin Software. S.T users, or indeed any 16 bit
user had never seen anything like this new-easy to use, and yet extremely
powerful Basic programming language.
The son of STOS, Amos, was released to a very eager Amiga community in 1990
with great success.
A year later the Amos compiler and V1.3 of Amos stunned an already loyal and
near fanatical band of Amos users.
In 1992 Easy Amos and then Amos Professional were released. Amos Pro was,
and still is, highly esteemed by dedicated Amos users.
Christmas 1992 saw Amiga Format "give away" V1.34 of Amos on it's cover
disks closely followed a few months later by CU.Amiga giving V1.35 of Amos
and the compiler on it's front cover. The manual had to be bought seperately.
Sadly Europress, who took over development of Amos in 1991, dropped all
development of STOS and has now done the same to Amos. Europress say there
will be no more updates to Amos, Easy Amos or Amos Pro. As a final gesture
Europress gave the latest versions of Amos Professional and Easy Amos away
on magazine coverdisks during christmas 1994.
But Amos has a huge following which will keep it thriving for years to
come. Every month there seems to be a new extension released to enhanced
Amos' prowess. There are still at least three Amos dedicated disk magazines
doing the rounds and the Amiga mags still carry Amos columns.
Thanks to third party support Amos still has a bright future and as long
as Amiga programmers keep on writing, Amos will not die.