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INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to all you Amos beginners out there. It's going to be a long hard
slog to learn how to program in Amos, so don't kid yourself. Amos may be the
easiest Basic language to learn on the Amiga but that doesn't mean you will
be knocking out Lemmings clones this time next week. So be patient and take
one chapter of this tutorial at a time, and above all, take notes.
Taking notes will make a BIG difference to how fast you will learn the
commands and are worth keeping for future reference.
If you don't take notes then you will not get the most out of this tutorial.
The purpose of this tutorial is to help complete beginners and by beginners
I mean people who know how to load Amos but are confused by the hundreds of
commands and want a simple explanation of what they do with examples.
Chapters one to twenty five are for the Absolute beginner, chapters twenty
six onward are for the more intermediate of Amos programmers and
something for beginners who have completed the previous chapters to try and
grasp.
A beginner having thoroughly worked through the first twenty five chapters
should not have too much trouble following the last chapters of the
book. If used correctly, a beginner studying every chapter of this book
in conjunction with the Amos User Manual should turn out to be an adequate
Amos coder on completion.
Recommended tools:
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Any Amiga with at least 1 meg of Chip ram
A printer (not essential, but extremely useful)
Amos V1.36 And/or Amos Professional V2.0
The official Amos manual
Amos Pro Compiler (Works on all versions of Amos)
A lot of patience and grit!
If you have a printer it can be very useful for printing out your own and
other peoples program listings to store/study. Studying and modifying other
peoples code is an excellent way to learn.
Certain Amiga magazines have "Given away" versions of Amos and Amos Pro.
This is a good deal as long as you also buy the official manual. Obtaining
the manual is essential. Make sure you are using the latest version of
Amos. I you are not then "Updater disks" are available in the Public Domain.
I recommend the Amos Pro compiler as opposed to the old Amos compiler
because it has a few less bugs, is a lot quicker, is easier to use and
creates smaller executables. Although the old compiler will suffice,
especially as it was also given away on a cover disk (CU.Amiga)
Right, let's get to it >>>>>>>>>