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AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language implemented on the Amiga computer. AMOS BASIC was published by Europress Software and originally written by Fran�ois Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos. It is a descendant of STOS BASIC for the Atari ST. AMOS BASIC was first produced in 1990.

AMOS competed on the Amiga platform with Acid Software's Blitz BASIC. Both BASICs differed from other dialects on different platforms, in that they allowed the easy creation of fairly demanding multimedia software, with full structured code and many high-level functions to load images, animations, sounds and display them in various ways.

The original AMOS version was interpreted which, whilst working fine, suffered from performance problems. Later, an AMOS compiler was developed, that reduced this problem.

After the original version of AMOS, Europress released two other versions: Easy AMOS, a simpler version for beginners, and AMOS Professional, a more advanced version with added features, such as a better IDE, ARexx support, a new UI sublanguage and new flow control constructs. Neither of these new versions was significantly more popular than the original AMOS.

AMOS was mostly used to make video games (platformers and graphical adventures) and educational software.

The language was mildly successful within the Amiga community. Its ease of use made it especially attractive to beginners.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written. Despite this, a small community of enthusiasts are still using it. The source code to AMOS has since been released under a BSD style license by Clickteam - A company that includes the original programmer.

External links

Source code for AMOS and STOS (68000 ASM) (http://www.clickteam.com/English/amos.php)
The Yahoo! groups mailing list (still active) (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amos-list/)
Alvyn (http://alvyn.sourceforge.net/) - An open source C++ interpreter (alpha)
Mattathias BASIC (http://www.liquido2.com/) (68k AMOS compiler, early alpha)

Categories: BASIC dialects | Game creation software

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AMOS BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (357 words)
	AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language implemented on the Amiga computer.
	AMOS BASIC was published by Europress Software and originally written by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos.
	It is a descendant of STOS BASIC for the Atari ST.

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